AIDS in California

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AIDS in California

Business Wire

Sacramento, Calif.--There were 8,513 AIDS cases reported in California last year, in an increase of 4.3 percent from 1991. About 72 percent of cases were reported by homosexual or bisexual men, an increase of 0.8 percent over the previous year. More than 10 percent of cases were due to injection drug use, up 20 percent from last year, and compared to a slight decrease nationally. Almost 500 women in California reported having AIDS in 1992, up 17.6 percent from the previous year, and compared to an increase of 9.8 percent nationally. While new national statistics show that more women are developing AIDS from heterosexual contact than injection drug use, California statistics have shown the opposite since 1895. In 1992, 42 percent of California women with AIDS contracted the disease through injection drug use, 35.3 percent from heterosexual contact, 9.3 percent from contaminated blood products, and 12.8 percent from unidentified sources.

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