1 - National Criminal Justice Reference Service

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Eucutiw Summary: At:.quind Inrnumodeflckncy Syndrome (AIDS) Among Injection Drug Users (lDUs)
homosexuallbisexual !DUs has remained level at 4 percent for the last five CEWG reporting
periods.
Newark, by far, continues to have the highest proportion of injection-drug-use-related cases.
Of the total 2,280 adult/adolescent cases reported as of August 1991, 73 percent were IDUs.
Of that number, 69 percent were heterosexual IDUs. Other States and cities reporting
substantial percentages of heterosexual IDUs among AIDS cases include Massachusetts (23
percent), Miami (22.3 percent), Michigan and Washington, D.C. (22 percent each). Several
localities have substantial percentages of homosexuallbisexual IDUs among AIDS cases: Arizona
(20 percent), Texas and Seattle (10 percent each); Colorado (9.9 percent), and San Francisco
(9.1 percent).
The impact of injecting drug use upon heterosexual HIV transmission is evidenced by the 6,027
AIDS cases identified through October 1991 in the category of heterosexual contact with an
IDU-a 17-percent increase over the number reported in June 1991.
Through October 1991, a total of 3,372 pediatric cases have been identified. Pediatric cases for
which the mother has a history of injecting drug use, or heterosexual contact with an IOU, total
1,395 and 581 respectively-increases of 9 percent and 7 percent, respectively, -over the number
reported in June 1991.
CEWG December 1991 45
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