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Article: Cases of AIDS in older women on the rise.
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- August 18, 1997
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The number of cases of AIDS in older women is steadily on the rise, according to recent figures released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
About 2,500 cases of AIDS among women 60 and over have been reported to the CDC, and the number of new cases has been growing year by year, from 102 in 1986 to 305 last year. Blood transfusions accounted for most AIDS cases among women in that age group a decade ago; now heterosexual contact leads to 69 percent of them.
The number of AIDS cases reported through December of 1996 for Black women 60 and over was 1,128 cases, up from last year by 193 cases.
Over the last decade there have been several ...