The number of new HIV diagnoses in New York has hit a record low after falling nearly 40 percent in the last decade, city authorities said. The city said 2,718 people were diagnosed with HIV in 2014 compared to 2,832 in 2013 and 4,397 in 2004, a decline of more than 38 percent. In 2001, when records began, there were 5,862 new diagnoses.
At the height of the New York AIDS crisis there were more than 12,000 AIDS diagnoses in 1993, according to city data.