Update: Trends in AIDS Incidence--United States, 1996

Abstract:
This report documents the first overall decline in the annual incidence of AIDS-opportunistic illnesses (AIDS-OIs) in the U.S. Concurrently, annual deaths among persons aged 13 years and older reported with AIDS have also decreased. These trends are the result of changes in the rate of new HIV infections, AIDS diagnoses resulting from progression of HIV disease to AIDS, and deaths of HIV-infected persons. The declines in AIDS-OI incidence and deaths reflect the impact of both HIV prevention efforts and the use of antiretroviral therapies and AIDS-OI prophylaxis. During 1996, AIDS-OI incidence declined in all regions of the country; in all 5-year age groups; and in men, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics, men who have sex with men, injecting-drug users, and men who reported both of these exposures. AIDS-OIs leveled among non-Hispanic blacks and increased in women and among those with heterosexual risk/exposures. From 1995 to 1996, the prevalence of AIDS increased 11%, so that approximately 235,470 persons in whom AIDS has been diagnosed are still living. CDC urges timely access to HIV-care services for HIV-infected persons, continued emphasis on behavioral risk-reduction and other prevention strategies, and HIV case surveillance as an extension of the AIDS Surveillance programs in all states and territories.

Publication: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Vol. 46, No. 37, pp. 861-867


Date Published: 9/19/1997

Pages: 7

Comments:
Single copies of this report available until 9/19/98 from the CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse: 800-458-5231 or 301-217-0023.

Location Code: 14120