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1Disease Control and AIDS Prevention, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee.
Abstract:
Florida is third in the nation in the cumulative number of AIDS cases. The epidemic in the state has grown steadily since 1981, clustering initially in metropolitan South Florida but dispersing to other urban and nonurban areas. Heterosexually transmitted AIDS is fast increasing and is more than twice as common in Florida than the United States; however, homosexual/bisexual men and intravenous drug-using men and women continue to represent the majority of new cases. Special serologic studies of the prevalence of HIV infection provide a timely view of the dynamics and characteristics of the epidemic in various segments of the state's population. Data from a large, ongoing serosurvey suggest that about one in every 220 childbearing women is HIV-infected, a finding consistent with Florida's rank of second nationally in the number of pediatric AIDS cases.
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