Reports on HIV/AIDS: 1990

TABLE 1. AIDS cases reported during 1981-1989 among women ages 15-44 years, by exposure category and race/ethnicity,
United States*
Race/ethnicity

Exposure categoryt
Intravenous (IV)-drui
Hemophilia/coagulal
Sex with IV-drug us(
Sex with bisexual m
Sex with man with 1

White Black Asian or American Indian or
(non-Hispanic) (non-Hispanic) Hispanic Pacific Islander Alaskan Native Total'
No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
g abuse 1,133 (53.4) 2,948 (60.0) 784 (54.7) 9 (21.4) 14 (63.6) 4,898 (57.2)
tion disorder 18 (0.8) 3 (0.1) 1 (0.1) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 22 (0.3)
er 366 (17.2) 900 (18.3) 442 (30.8) 10 (23.8) 2 (9.1) 1,725 (20.2)
ian 137 (6.4) 108 (2.2) 35 (2.4) 4 (9.5) 1 (4.6) 286 (3.3)
hemophilia 32 (1.5) 2 (0.0) 1 (0.1) 1 (2.4) 0 (0.0) 36 (0.4)

CO

Sex with man born in a
pattern-II country"
Women born in pattern-II country
Women born elsewhere
Sex with transfusion recipient
with HIV infection
Sex with HIV-infected man with
unspecified mode of exposure
Receipt of blood transfusion,

1 (0.0) 387 (7.9)
1 (0.0) 28 (0.6)

2 (0.1) 1
0 (0.0) 0

14 (0.7) 3 (0.1) 4 (0.3) 0

(2.4) 0 (0.0) 393 (4.6)
(0.0) 0 (0.0) 29 (0.3)
(0.0) 0 (0.0) 21 (0.2)
(7.1) 3 (13.6) 250 (2.9)

77 (3.6) 130 (2.6)

37 (2.6) 3

blood components, or tissue 221 (10.4) 124 (2.5) 53 (3.7) 11 (26.2) 1 (4.6) 410 (4.8)
Undetermined exposure** 123 (5.8) 278 (5.7) 75 (5.2) 3 (7.1) 1 (4.6) 486 (5.7)
Total 2,123 (100.0) 4,911 (100.0) 1,434 (100.0) 42 (100.0) 22 (100.0) 8,556 (100.0)
*Excluding cases among residents of U.S. dependencies, possessions, or territories.
tExposure categories are hierarchically ordered; women with multiple possible means of exposure to HIV were tabulated only in the category
listed first.
'Including cases among women of unknown race/ethnicity.
~A country in which heterosexual contact is the predominant mode of HIV transmission.
**""Undetermined" refers to women whose mode of exposure to HIV was unknown, including a) women under investigation; b) women who
were not fully investigated because they died, were lost to follow-up, or refused an interview; and c) women whose mode of exposure
remained undetermined after investigation.