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Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan 65 HIV/AIDS in Alameda County At the end of 2003, there were 2,720 people living with AIDS who had been diagnosed in Alameda County. HIV case reporting was implemented in July 2002, so comprehensive data is not yet available. However, at the end of 2003, 1,162 people had been diagnosed with HIV but not AIDS and reported in Alameda County. African Americans made make up nearly half of people living with AIDS in Alameda County, despite being just 14 percent of the total population in 2002. Alameda County receives funding dedicated for housing and services for people living with HIV/AIDS from both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program and the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Ryan White CARE Act program. For the current year, this funding totals more than $8 million combined. This funding supports services for nearly 3,000 people as well as more than 200 units of housing. This chapter presents information about the population living with HIV/AIDS in Alameda County, and the resources dedicated to meeting the housing and services needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. (Please refer to Companion Materials, 10. HIV/AIDS in Alameda County: Expanded Version for a more comprehensive overview of information related to this chapter.) This plan estimates that housing assistance is needed for 4,890 people living with HIV/AIDS who have extremely low incomes and are at-risk of becoming homeless, as well as 46 people living with HIV/AIDS in the chronically homeless population and 168 people living with HIV/AIDS in the community-defined homeless population. Please see the chapter entitled Housing Assistance Needs of People Who Are Homeless and/or Have Special Needs for a detailed estimate of the amount and types of housing needed for the plan's three target populations. Population Living with HIV/AIOS in Alameda County As of December 31,2003, there were 2,720 people living with AIDS in Alameda County. Because California implemented HIV -reporting changes in 2002, HIV data is not considered complete. A total of 1,162 HIV (non-AIDS) cases had been reported to Alameda County between the start of reporting and December 31, 2003. The majority of people who have been diagnosed with AIDS in Alameda County since 1980 are men, at 87 percent of the total. Since reporting began in 1980, 41 percent of AIDS diagnoses were in adults aged 30 to 39, and 30 percent were in adults aged 40 to 49. The majority of people diagnosed with AIDS in Alameda County from 1980 through 2003, 58 percent, were living in Oakland at the time of diagnosis. Nine percent were living in Berkeley at the diagnosis, followed by 8 percent in Hayward, 6 percent in San Leandro, and 5 percent in Alameda. Blacks/African Americans make up nearly half of all people living with AIDS in Alameda County, despite being just 14 percent of Alameda County's total population in 2002. African Americans as a group have less access to health care and more negative health outcomes than most other racial/ethnic groups and the population as a whole in relationship to HIV / AIDS and many other health conditions. In late 1998, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a