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...By the end of 2002, 159,271 adolescent and adult women in the US were reported as having AIDS. (8)
* Based on cases reported to the CDC through December 2002, more than 57,376 women have been infected with HIV. (8)
* Of new infections among women in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 75 percent of women were infected through heterosexual sex and 25 percent through injection drug use. Of newly infected women, approximately 64 percent are African American, 18 percent are Caucasian, 18 percent are Hispanic, and small percentage are members of other racial/ethnic groups. (2)
* HIV disproportionately affects...
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