AIDS/HIV (Epidemiology)

Transmission Patterns Are Changing in the U.S.

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 11th, 1995

More than a half million cases of AIDS in the United States have been reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia through October 1995.

Almost half of the 501,310 cases of AIDS have been reported since 1993, the CDC reported ("First 500,000 AIDS Cases-United States, 1995," MMWR, November 24, 1995;44(46):849-853).

The report stressed changes in epidemiologic patterns during 1993 through October 1995.

"In particular, although men who have sex with men continue to account for the largest proportion of cases, the AIDS epidemic is increasing more rapidly among injecting-drug users and persons...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-12-11)

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