What city has the highest HIV rate in Texas?

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What city has the highest HIV rate in Texas?

The most recent data from the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District states 6,000 people in San Antonio have HIV. Bexar County had 360 new HIV diagnoses in 2016. That’s the highest number in recent years and the highest number in Texas.

How many people in the United States had HIV in 2010?

The latest CDC estimates of new HIV infections (HIV incidence) in the United States indicate that HIV remains a serious health problem, with an estimated 47,500 people becoming newly infected with the virus in the United States in 2010.

What state has the highest HIV rate 2020?

States with the Highest Rates of HIV

  • Florida (39.1 per 100k)
  • Hawaii (23.8 per 100k)
  • Georgia (21.5 per 100k)
  • Louisiana (20.9 per 100k)
  • Nevada (16.6 per 100k)
  • Maryland (16.5 per 100k)
  • Mississippi (16 per 100k)
  • Texas (15.3 per 100k)

What county in Texas has the highest STD rate?

Top Ten Texas Counties with STDs

  1. Harris County. Houston, the Bayou City, the Big Sticky.
  2. Dallas County. The Big-D has about 2.4 million people and 19, 017 cases of chlamydia.
  3. Bexar County.
  4. Travis County.
  5. Tarrant County.
  6. El Paso County.
  7. Bell County.
  8. Fort Bend County.

What is the highest STD rate in Texas?

While Austin ranks 56th, it’s not even close to being the highest Texas city on the list. Killeen ranks in at number 8, with 1,644 STD cases per 100,000 people. This translates to 80 HIV cases, 1,1145 gonorrhea cases, 2,722 chlamydia cases and 55 syphilis cases.

What area of Florida has the highest STD rate?

But state data offers a more worrisome look at the county’s STD rates. Alachua County reported about 1,350 new cases of bacterial STDs per 100,000 people in 2019, putting it in the top three counties in the state to do so — just behind Leon and Gadsden counties, which help make up the Tallahassee metropolitan area.