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While the largest percentage of minority AIDS victims have been homosexuals or bisexuals (40% for blacks, 49% for Hispanics), the growing infection rate among IV drug abusers threatens to alter those proportions. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that 70% of the nation's 1.28 million IV addicts are black or Hispanic, and according to the CDC, about a third of AIDS cases among those minorities have been linked to drug abuse, in contrast to just 5% of cases among whites. The virus spreads easily in urban shooting galleries, where a contaminated needle may be passed among...
...marriage test in particular will not effectively reach the high-risk groups -- homosexual and bisexual men and intravenous drug abusers, who collectively make up 91% of U.S. AIDS cases. Indeed, researchers at the AIDS conference presented evidence of a continuing rise in the number of new infections among IV drug users in the U.S., most of them black or Hispanic, who are spreading the virus to the heterosexual community...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV...
Almost 21,000 Americans have died from the disease so far, which was first identified in 1981, but until recently most of the victims were homosexuals or intravenous drug users. More than 60 percent of adult American AIDS victims were homosexual or bisexual and 17 percent of them were IV drug users, say officials at the Center for Disease Control. National health experts estimate that between one and 1.5 million Americans have antibodies to the virus that causes AIDS but say they do not know what percentage of them will develop the disease, which has an incubation period...
...same time, the danger to specific risk groups -- particularly intravenous drug abusers and their sex partners -- has been seriously underplayed. "The people who really need to be concerned," says Jaffe, "are the 15-year-old black and Hispanic girls who have IV drug-abusing boyfriends. I really wonder what they know about this and who is looking out for them...