AIDS Statistics

AIDs cases by exposure category, as of 2005.

United States
Percent
Male-to-Male Sexual Contact
44.0%
Injection Drug Use
23.8%
Male-to-Male Sexual Contact and Injection Drug Use
6.6%
Hemophilia/Coagulation Disorder
0.6%
Heterosexual Contact
13.4%
Receipt of Blood Transfusion, Blood Components, or Tissue
1.0%
Other/Risk Factor Not Reported or Identified
10.7%
Total Cumulative Adult/Adolescent AIDS Cases
100.0%

Texas
Percent
Male-to-Male Sexual Contact
55.1%
Injection Drug Use
14.1%
Male-to-Male Sexual Contact and Injection Drug Use
9.6%
Hemophilia/Coagulation Disorder
0.4%
Heterosexual Contact
10.6%
Receipt of Blood Transfusion, Blood Components, or Tissue
1.1%
Other/Risk Factor Not Reported or Identified
9.1%
Total Cumulative Adult/Adolescent AIDS Cases
100.0%

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Surveillance and Epidemiology, Special Data Request, November 2006.

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Note: the category “heterosexual contact” includes—among other things— “sex with bisexual male” and “sex with HIV-infected, risk not specified.”