U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Heterosexual Hispanics, blacks account for high proportion of cases

Published in Physician Law Weekly, March 10th, 2004

Recent data from the 29 states that report HIV diagnoses indicate that more than a third (35%) of people diagnosed with HIV were infected through heterosexual contact. Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks represent 84% of heterosexually acquired HIV diagnoses, but only 21% of the population in HIV-reporting states.

The findings were reported in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Analysis of previously reported HIV data from the 29 states with longstanding HIV reporting finds that from 1999 through 2002 more than one-third (35%) of those diagnosed with HIV were infected through heterosexual...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2004-03-10)

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