First 500,000 AIDS Cases--United States, 1995

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First 500,000 AIDS Cases--United States, 1995

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (11/24/95) Vol. 44, No. 46, P. 849

A total of 501,310 AIDS cases had been reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of Oct. 31, 1995. More than 62 percent of these individuals have died. Nearly half of the cases were reported between 1993 and 1995, while 10 percent were reported in the years between 1981 and 1987 and 41 percent were reported from 1988 to 1992. Also, the proportion of female AIDS patients grew from 8 percent in the 1981-1987 period to 18 percent during 1993 to October 1995. The rate of AIDS among whites fell from 60 percent to below 45 percent, yet the rate among blacks and Hispanics increased 13 percentage points to 38 percent and 4 percentage points to 18 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the proportion of AIDS cases among injection drug users rose from 17 percent between 1981 and 1987 to 27 percent in the most recent reporting period. A full 10 percent of the cases resulted from heterosexual contact, up from 3 percent, and 45 percent of the cases were among men who have sex with men, down from 64 percent. Across the country, the rate of reported AIDS cases per 100,000 population was highest in the Northeast during 1994--a trend which differs from the periods between 1988 to 1992 and 1993 to 1995, in which the South had the largest number of cases, as well as the largest proportionate increase in reported cases.

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