Epidemiology

Columbia, South Carolina HIV Infection Rate Drops

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 8th, 2001

The number of AIDS cases has dropped for the Columbia, South Carolina, metropolitan area, according to a new ranking based on a fiscal year.

Between July 1999 and June 2000, 205 AIDS cases were reported. Last fiscal year, (1998-1999) 240 cases were reported. In June 2000, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ranked the Columbia area as the city with the fourth-highest AIDS rate in the nation, a rating based on a calendar year from January to December.

According to the ranking released in June 2000, this area had a higher infection rate in 1999 than the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles in California. The new report looks...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-01-08)

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