Women’s Health USA 2006
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
From press release:

A new HRSA data book indicates that despite a dramatic rise in the number of AIDS cases among women, only 37.3 percent of all U.S. women had ever been tested for HIV, according to 2004 data.

Testing rates among certain racial and ethnic groups and among younger women, however, were far higher than average, which may reflect a recognition of their risk of contracting HIV. Among women aged 25-34, almost two-thirds had been tested. Testing is critical in getting HIV-positive individuals into appropriate care.

Among female members of racial and ethnic groups, Women’s Health USA 2006 notes that 52.4 percent of non-Hispanic black women and 45.4 percent of Hispanic women in 2004 had ever been tested for HIV, compared to just one third of non-Hispanic white (33.6 percent) and Asian (33.3 percent) women, according to statistics compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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