Year-end edition, Vol. 8, No. 2. Following the first reports of cases of AIDS in 1981, AIDS surveillance has monitored the epidemic in the United States. Through December 31, 1996, 581,429 persons with AIDS were reported to CDC by state and local health departments (tables 1-2). Of these, 488,300 (84 percent) were men, 85,500 (15 percent) were women, and 7,629 (1 percent) were children less than 13 years old (tables 4, 5, and 6). statistics_hivsur82.pdf Publication date from document properties.

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