Update: Heterosexual Transmission of AIDS and HIV - U.S.

Abstract:
[Archived] The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports on heterosexually transmitted HIV infections based on national AIDS surveillance, HIV seroprevalence surveys, and studies of populations at risk for heterosexual transmission. By March 31, 1989, 4 percent of 89,501 AIDS cases in persons 13 years or older were attributed to heterosexual transmission. The CDC reports that the number of heterosexually acquired AIDS has increased each year, with a 97 percent increase in reports of persons with an at-risk partner. Most reports of person with at-risk partners were women, 74 percent of 2625 people. Blacks and Hispanics had the highest incidence of hetersexually acquired AIDS per 100,000 population in the 12 months before March 31, 1989. Nearly 30 percent of children with AIDS came from mothers infected with heterosexual contact. The CDC stresses the need to educate prostitutes, drug users, and their sexual contacts to take steps to stop HIV transmission.

Publication: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 38:423-434


Date Published: 6/23/1989

Pages: 11

Location Code: 14015