Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1997. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1997. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - Tuesday September 16 10:33 PM EDT
By the end of 1995, 67,400 women had been diagnosed with the disease, almost 20 percent of the total AIDS cases in the United States, the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The greatest increases were among women who acquired the disease through heterosexual contact, added the study, published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Young women are at risk for HIV infection at an earlier age than young heterosexual men ... adolescent women are becoming infected by older sexual or needle-sharing partners," the report said.
"A recent study reported that adolescent women were less likely to use condoms with older heterosexual male partners than with same-age partners," it added.
The study suggested that successive groups of younger women will continue to be at risk for AIDS "as they reach adolescence and young adulthood. Prevention programs must reach young women before they initiate sexual activity and drug use."
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