The New York Times - Tuesday, December 3, 2002
Stacy Albin (NYT) (Compiled by Anthony Ramirez)

The number of newly diagnosed cases of AIDS dropped by more than 17 percent last year, to 4,677, the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced yesterday. As recently as 1997, new cases totaled 7,316. The department said AIDS data were continually restated because of new reporting requirements and changes in classification, like those by the World Health Organization. The data released yesterday are the most accurate available, said Greg Butler, a department spokesman. AIDS-related deaths totaled 1,774 last year, down nearly 10 percent from the year before. The number of New Yorkers living with AIDS was 50,715, up nearly 6 percent from the previous year, in part because of advances in medication, the department said. Of the new cases in 2001, blacks and Hispanics made up 82 percent. Stacy Albin (NYT)

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