From 2005-2008, blacks/African Americans constituted the largest percentage of diagnoses of HIV infection each year. In 2008, of adults and adolescents diagnosed with HIV infection in the 37 states and 5 U.S. dependent areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting since at least January 2005, 50% were black/African American, 29% were white, 20% were Hispanic/Latino, 1% each were Asian and American Indian/Alaska Native and persons reporting multiple races, and less than 1% were Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander.