Subject: Data Show AIDS Rising In Women and Drug Users
Date: Published: 7/3/92 (35 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Technology:
    Data Show AIDS Rising
    In Women and Drug Users

    ATLANTA -- The latest profile of AIDS in the U. S. shows
 that the fatal illness is continuing to spread rapidly among
 women and heterosexual men who inject drugs.
    A study published by the Centers for Disease Control found
 11,155 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome reported
 among those groups in 1991, compared with 10,161 cases in
 1990, an increase of 9.8%.  Those individuals accounted for
 nearly one-fourth of the U. S. 's reported cases last year.
    In all, 45,506 AIDS cases were reported by local health
 departments in 1991, a 5% increase from 1990.
    Geographically, the South reported the largest increase
 last year, a 10.2% rise to 15,761 cases.  The Midwest was
 second, showing a rise of 8.6% to 4,428 cases.
    "The South has been the last part of the country to see
 the disease," said Dr. Dale J. Hu, a medical epidemiologist
 at the CDC. 
    The incidence of AIDS grew among almost all ethnic groups,
 including an 11.5% increase among Hispanics and a 10.2%
 increase among blacks.
    The number of new cases among homosexual men, the group
 first ravaged by the disease, dropped 0.4% to 23,960 in 1991
 from 24,053 in 1990.

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