According to the Centers for Disease Control (April 2015), as many as 73% of the transgender women who tested HIV-positive were unaware of their status. An analysis of 29 published studies found that  27.7% of transgender women tested positive for HIV infection, but only 11.8% of transgender women self-reported having HIV. In one study, Studies also indicate that black transgender women are more likely to become infected with HIV than non-black transgender women. "Higher percentages of newly identified HIV-positive test results were found among black/African American transgender women (56.3%) than among white (16.7%) or Latino (16.1%) transgender women; and self-reported HIV infection in studies made up of predominantly of black/African American transgender women (30.8%) was higher than positivity reported in studies comprising mainly white transgender women (6.1%).