YOUNG ADULT AIDS
As of December 31, 2000, 27,232 cases of AIDS were
reported in young adults aged 20-24 years. This total
includes 1,346 newly reported cases in 2000. The number
of newly reported cases decreased by 10 percent from
1999 to 2000.
Males aged 20-24 years represent 60 percent of the
AIDS cases reported in 2000. However, from 1999 to
2000, the number of newly reported AIDS cases among
young adult men aged 20-24 years has decreased by
15 percent. Over half of these new cases were transmitted
by men having sex with men.
Newly reported AIDS cases among females 20-24 years
of age decreased by 3 percent from 1999 to 2000. Young
adult women are exposed to HIV primarily through injecting
drug use (26 percent) and through heterosexual sex
(55 percent), including having sex with an injecting
drug user.
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Notes:
1 On January 1, 1993, the AIDS case definition
for adults and adolescents aged 13 years and
older was expanded to include HIV- infected
persons with CD4 counts of less than or equal
to 200 cells/uL or a CD4 percentage of less
than or equal to 14, and persons diagnosed with
pulmonary tuberculosis, recurrent pneumonia,
and invasive cervical cancer.
2 Receipt of Blood/Blood components:
- Received clotting factor for hemophilia coagulation
disorder
- Received blood transfusions, blood components,
or tissue
3 Heterosexual contact includes sex with: an
injecting drug user; a person with hemophilia;
a transfusion recipient infected with HIV; an
HIV infected person, risk not specific; a bisexual
male (females only).
4 The category "Men who have sex with men"
includes men who have sex with men and inject
drugs.
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