More than 16,600 Latinas had injection-related AIDS or had already died from it, by the end of 2000.  Thousands more were infected with HIV.(1)
	AIDS was among the top eight leading causes of death for Latinas aged 20 to 54 in 1999.(2)  Some 70 percent of those deaths were drug-related.(3)
	The AIDS death rate for Latinas age 35 to 44 was four times higher than the AIDS death rate for white women in 1999.(2)

Footnotes

(1) Injection-related AIDS cases include women infected through use of a dirty needle and women infected through heterosexual sex with a man who injected drugs. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2000. HIV/AIDS surveillance report. U.S. HIV and AIDS cases reported through December 2000. vol. 12, no.2. Table 23.  

(2) As a cause of death among Latinas in 1999, AIDS was:
eighth for those aged 20-24
fourth for those aged 25-34
third for those aged 35-44
seventh for those aged 45-54.
National Vital Statistics Reports. 2001. “Deaths: Leading Causes for 1999,”  Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, by Robert N. Anderson, vol. 49, no. 11, October 12. Table 2. Available in Adobe Acrobat.

(3) The estimate that 70 percent of all AIDS deaths among Latinas aged 35 to 44 are drug-related is based on the percentage of all AIDS cases among Latinas that are drug-related. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2000. HIV/AIDS surveillance report. U.S. HIV and AIDS cases reported through December 2000. vol. 12, no.2. Table 23.  

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