Facts & Figures
Annual
Reports
The annual North Carolina HIV/STD/Hepatitis Surveillance Report
contains detailed case statistics and tables about syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS,
viral hepatitis B and C for the last full 5-year period. It includes breakdowns of reports by
sex, age group, and race/ethnicity for each year with accompanying disease incidence rates.
Most Recent Annual Reports
Special Note: 2020 HIV, STD and Hepatitis B and C annual data are now available.
This year the annual report is broken up by disease to make it easier to find the relevant maps
and tables. Charts, figures, and data on various populations are available as fact sheets and slide sets; some 2020 data is now
available in these formats. Fact sheets and slide sets are updated over the course of the year.
2021 Annual Reports
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Key Points from the North Carolina 2021 Annual Reports
HIV
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As of December 31, 2021, the number of people living with HIV who reside in
North
Carolina (including those initially diagnosed in another state) was 35,632.
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In 2021, 1,400 people were newly diagnosed with HIV among the adult and
adolescent
(over 13 years old) population, a rate of 15.7 per 100,000 population.
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The highest rate (72.9 per 100,000) of newly diagnosed HIV infections was among
adult/adolescent Black/African American men.
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For adults and adolescents newly diagnosed with HIV in 2021, the most likely
route
of transmission was male-male sex (reported by 57.1%), followed by heterosexual
sex
(18.5%), and injection drug use (IDU) (2.6%); the most likely route of
transmission
was unknown for 18.3% of people newly diagnosed with HIV in 2021.
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The number of people newly categorized as having Stage 3 HIV (AIDS) in North
Carolina has been stable for the past five years.
- There were no perinatal (mother-to-child) HIV transmissions documented in 2021.
STD
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The number of chlamydia cases diagnosed in North Carolina in 2021 was 65,107, a
rate of 617 per 100,000 population.
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In 2021, Black/African American men and women had the highest chlamydia rates
among race/ethnicity groups (864 and 1,352 per 100,000, respectively) and
accounted
for 39% of people diagnosed with chlamydia.
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The reported number of gonorrhea cases in 2021 was 29,177, a rate of 277 per
100,000 population, an increase from 28,075 cases in 2020 (rate of 269 per
100,000).
Gonorrhea cases have been increasing in North Carolina for the past few years.
In
2017, there were a total of 22,730 cases reported (221 per 100,000).
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In 2021, Black/African American men and women had the highest gonorrhea rates
(824
and 569 per 100,000, respectively) and accounted for 53% of people diagnosed
with
gonorrhea.
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The number of early syphilis (primary, secondary, and early non-primary
non-secondary) cases diagnosed in North Carolina in 2021 was 3,162, a rate of 30
per
100,000 population. This is an increase from previous years (2019: 2,135 cases
and
rate of 20 per 100,000; 2020: 2,363 cases and rate of 23 per 100,000).
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Black/African American men had the highest rates of early syphilis (144 per
100,000) and accounted for 48% of total early syphilis cases in 2021.
Hepatitis B and C
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There were 142 people diagnosed with acute hepatitis B in North Carolina in 2021
(rate of 1.3 cases per 100,000 population). This rate is higher than the national
average rate of acute hepatitis B (0.7 cases per 100,000 population) reported in the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
(https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/statistics/2020surveillance/hepatitis-b.htm).
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There were 100 people diagnosed with acute hepatitis C in North Carolina in 2021
(rate of 0.9 cases per 100,000 population). This rate is lower than the national
average rate of acute hepatitis C (rate of 1.5 cases per 100,000 population)
reported in the CDC’s 2020 surveillance report.
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The majority of acute hepatitis B cases were diagnosed among middle-aged persons
ages 35- to 54-years-old (65%; 88 cases). Persons aged 25- to 39-years-old accounted
for 60% of acute hepatitis C cases (60 cases) diagnosed in 2021.
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Non-Hispanic White men and women comprised 73% of people with acute hepatitis B
(111 cases) and 79% of people with acute hepatitis C (78 cases) diagnosed in 2021.
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As of December 31, 2021, 27,312 people with chronic hepatitis B and 80,707 people
with chronic hepatitis C were known to be living in North Carolina.
Previous Annual Reports (Last Four Years*)
- 2020 North Carolina Hepatitis
B/C Surveillance Report (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- 2020 North Carolina HIV
Surveillance Report (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- 2020 North Carolina STD
Surveillance Report (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- 2019 HIV Annual Report (PDF, 2 MB)
- 2019 Sexually Transmitted Disease Annual Report (PDF, 2
MB)
- 2019 Hepatitis B and C Annual Report (PDF, 2 MB)
- 2019 North Carolina
Sociodemographic Characteristics (PDF, 732 KB)
- 2018 HIV Annual Report (PDF, 2 MB)
- 2018 STD Annual Report (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- 2018 Hepatitis B and C Annual Report (PDF, 2.9
MB)
- 2017 (PDF, 6 MB) - Revised: 12/14/2018
*See Archives for earlier versions of the Annual Reports.