The rate of infection of most STDs is generally higher than the white segment of the American population.

• The rate of infection of chlamydia in American Indians is 797.3 cases per 100,000 people, a rate that is five times higher than that of the white population.

• Gonorrhea infection rates are four times that of whites at 138.3 per 100,000, a rate increase of 22.9%.

• The infection rate of syphilis 2.4-3.3 individuals per 100,000, an increase in rate of 37.5%

Although American Indians and Alaska Natives are the smallest population within the U.S. and comprise less than one percent of all HIV infections, this subset has the third highest rate of infection.

• The infection rate of HIV is 10.4 per 100,000 people compared to 8.8 per 100,000 people for whites.

• The rate of HIV infection for American Indians has been high than the rate for whites since 1995.

• Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, 3,238 American Indians have been diagnosed and in 2005 2,055 American Indians and Alsakan Natives were living with HIV/AIDS.

• American Indians infected with HIV will on average have the second shortest life expectancy.

•  A survey in 2005 of individuals that were diagnosed with AIDS between 1997 and 2004 resulted in 66% of Blacks, 67% of American Indians, 74% of Hispanics, 75% of Whites, and 81% of Asian/Pacific Islanders still being alive.⁵