HIV/AIDS in Injection Drug Users Florida

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HIV/AIDS in Injection Drug UsersFlorida
Bureau of HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Section [phone] or SC 205-4430
Data as of January 2003
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Estimated Number Injection Drug Users
(IDUs)According to HIV-Infection Status Title I
Eligible Metropolitan Areas, Florida
Number IDUs
Statewide, it is estimated that there are as
many as 96,300 IDUs, of whom approximately
18,300 (19) are HIV infected. (Data are
provisional.) Source Bureau of HIV/AIDS
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HIV Case Reporting

• Reflects good demographic information
• Tends to represent more recent infections
• Not Population Based
• Now includes all reported HIV cases regardless of
  AIDS status
• No retroactive reporting prior to July 1997
• Patients are tested on a self-selected basis
• Anonymous tests are not reported
• Data represents a minimum estimate of HIV
  prevalence

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Reported IDU, Sex with IDU and Total Adult AIDS
Cases, For Selected Counties, Florida,
1998-2002
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Reported IDU, Sex with IDU and Total Adult HIV
(regardless of AIDS status) Cases, For Selected
Counties, Florida, 1998-2002
HIV data includes those cases that have converted
to AIDS. These HIV cases cannot be added with
AIDS cases to get combined totals since the
categories are not mutually exclusive.
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Florida
Adult AIDS Cases by Mode of Exposure Reported
through 2002 (N 88,958)
Adult AIDS Cases by Mode of Exposure Reported
in 2002 (N 5,062)
Note Exploded pieces are IDU-related AIDS
cases All other includes cases under
investigation
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Adult AIDS Cases by Mode of Exposure by
Sex Florida, 2002
Males (N 3,636)
Females (N 1,426)
Note exploded pieces are IDU-related AIDS
cases All other includes cases under
investigation
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Adult HIV (regardless of AIDS status) Cases by
Mode of Exposure by Sex Florida, 2002
Males (N4,743)
Females (N2,343)
Note exploded pieces are IDU-related AIDS
cases All other includes cases under
investigation
HIV data includes those cases that have converted
to AIDS. These HIV cases cannot be added with
AIDS cases to get combined totals since the
categories are not mutually exclusive.
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Reported AIDS and HIV Cases Among Injection Drug
Usersby Race/EthnicityFlorida, 2002
HIV (regardless of AIDS status) (N614)
AIDS (N610)
IDU MSM/IDU IDU AIDS Case
HIV data includes those cases that have converted
to AIDS. These HIV cases cannot be added with
AIDS cases to get combined totals since the
categories are not mutually exclusive.
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Cumulative Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cases By
Expanded Exposure Category Florida, Reported
through 2002, N1,725
Note Mmother Msxheterosexual risk
Note Exploded pieces are IDU-related AIDS cases.
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Abbreviations

• MSM Men who have Sex with Men
• IDU Injecting Drug User
• Het. Sex w/IDU Heterosexual Sex with Injection
  Drug User
• Het. Sex other risks Heterosexual Sex with
  person with
• other risks
• M-IDU Mother Injection Drug User
• Msx-IDU Mother had Sex with Injection Drug User
• Msx-HIV/AIDS Mother had Sex with someone with
  HIV/AIDS
• M-HIV/AIDS Mother has HIV/AIDS

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For Florida HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Contact
[phone] Lorene Maddox, MPH Ext.
2613 Linda Friedlander, MS Ext. 2614
Tracina Bush Ext. 2612 Internet
http//www.doh.state.fl.us/disease_ctrl/aids/index
.html Intranet http//dohiws.doh.state.fl.us