new dataset that specifically monitors HIV among individuals 50 and older. "Fewer than one in five new HIV diagnoses in 2019 were among people over the age of 50," according to the dataset. "After peaking in 2012, the number of new HIV diagnoses among people over the age of 50 has gradually declined, reaching an all-time low of 93 new diagnoses in 2019."AIDS Foundation Chicago also revealed a drop in late HIV diagnoses, "a measure that represents missed opportunities to diagnose and treat HIV" among those 50 and older.
In the first half of the 2010s, late diagnoses among older Chicagoans was at 40 percent. By 2018, that number dropped to 34 percent, and then in 2019 it dropped even further to 20 percent.