Reports on HIV/AIDS: 1990

TABLE 2. AIDS cases reported during 1981-1989 among children <15 years of age, by exposure category and race/ethnicity, c..
United States*
Race/ethnicity
White Black Asian or American Indian or
(non-Hispanic) (non-Hispanic) Hispanic Pacific Islander Alaskan Native Total" E
Exposure categoryt No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
Male homosexual contact 0 (0.0) 1 (0.1) 0 (0.0) 1 (9.1) 0 (0.0) 2 (0.1)
Hemophilia/coagulation disorder 96 (20.6) 17 (1.6) 16 (4.0) 4 (36.4) 0 (0.0) 135 (7.0) o
Mother was intravenous (IV)-drug user 114 (24.5) 483 (45.8) 185 (46.5) 1 (9.1) 2 (50.0) 785 (40.5)
Mother had sex with IV-drug user 47 (10.1) 153 (14.5) 89 (22.4) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 290 (15.0) 0
Mother had sex with bisexual man 13 (2.8) 17 (1.6) 6 (1.5) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 36 (1.9) 2
Mother had sex with person a
with hemophilia 5 (1.1) 1 (0.1) 1 (0.2) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 7 (0.4)
Mother had sex with man born in a
pattern-II country"
Mother born in pattern-II country 2 (0.4) 169 (16.0) 1 (0.2) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 172 (8.9)
Mother born elsewhere 0 (0.0) 6 (0.6) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 7 (0.4)
Mother had sex with transfusion
recipient with HIV infection 5 (1.1) 3 (0.3) 1 (0.2) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 9 (0.5)
Mother had sex with HIV-infected man
with unknown mode of exposure 10 (2.2) 27 (2.6) 21 (5.3) 1 (9.1) 1 (25.0) 61 (3.2)
Mother received blood transfusion,
blood components, or tissue 11 (2.4) 13 (1.2) 7 (1.8) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 31 (1.6)
Mother had HIV infection but
unspecified mode of exposure 25 (5.4) 81 (7.7) 17 (4.3) 1 (9.1) 1 (25.0) 125 (6.4)
Receipt of blood transfusion,
blood components, or tissue 125 (26.9) 48 (4.6) 39 (9.8) 3 (27.3) 0 (0.0) 215 (11.1)
Undetermined exposure** 12 (2.6) 35 (3.3) 15 (3.8) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 62 (3.2)
Total 465 (100.0) 1,054 (100.0) 398 (100.0) 11 (100.0) 4 (100.0) 1,937 (100.0)
*Excluding cases among residents of U.S. dependencies, possessions, or territories.
tExposure categories are hierarchically ordered; children with multiple possible means of exposure to HIV were tabulated only in the
category listed first.
"Including cases among children of unknown race/ethnicity.
'A country in which heterosexual contact is the predominant mode of HIV transmission.
**"Undetermined" refers to children whose mode of exposure to HIV was unknown, including a) children under investigation; b) children
who were not fully investigated because they died, were lost to follow-up, or whose parents refused interview; and c) children whose mode
of exposure remained undetermined after investigation.