At least 3 percent of Washington, D.C., residents are HIV-positive or have AIDS, and every mode of transmission is on the rise, according to a new report by D.C. health officials.

Scheduled to be released Monday, the report notes that HIV continues to be the leading cause of death when it comes to infectious diseases, and there is no cure for it.

“Our rates are higher than West Africa. They’re on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya,” Shannon L. Hader, director of the District’s HIV/AIDS Administration, told The Washington Post.

Hader, who led the Federal Centers for Disease Control and prevention’s work in Zimbabwe, added that “we have every mode of transmission going up, all on the rise, and we have to deal with them.”

The report found a 22 percent increase in HIV and AIDS cases from the 12,428 reported at the end of 2006. Black men have an infection rate of nearly 7 percent, carrying the weight of the disease. About 1 in 10 D.C. residents between the ages of 40 and 49 has the virus. The disease’s leading mode of transmission has remained men having sex with men, closely followed by heterosexual transmission and injection drug use. Three percent of black women carry the virus, partly a result of the increase in heterosexual transmissions.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health's program on infectious diseases named the findings “depressing news, especially considering HIV’s profound impact on minority communities. And remember: The city’s numbers are just based on people who’ve gotten tested.”