US data map expands to show HIV incidence by zipcode for 61 cities

On 29 October 2026, the US AIDSvu website from Emory University announced that their latest data maps not only breaks down regional data on HIV incidence by county, but that data by ZIP code is now available for 61 high-incidence cities. [1]

The new ZIP code data ZIP includes 24 of the 25 most populated US cities, accounting for 54% of diagnoses nationally..

The website has options to view data by (i) rates per 100,000 people, (ii) number of cases and (iii) percentage of cases and can also be filtered by age, race, sex and likely route of transmission.

For example, in 2024, Black individuals in the US were diagnosed with HIV at a rate that was 8.4 x higher than White individuals and Hispanic/Latino individuals were diagnosed with HIV at a rate that was 4.8 x higher.

Based on 2024 data, there were 1,157,995 people living with HIV in the US, including 38,765 who were newly diagnosed that year. Only around 80% of people diagnosed in 2024 had been able to connect to care in the month since testing positive. Late diagnosis was reported at 29%.

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The impressive AIDSvu website is easy to use and gives an unsettling picture of the US epidemic.

Although annual diagnoses over the last 25 years have ranged from 32,000 to 47,000, most years are around 40,000 and there hasn’t been a steady decline, despite expanded access to PrEP and U=U.