Percentage of Persons with AIDS by Gender, USA, 1981-1995.

Are females still less likely to have AIDS than are males?

This graphic shows the percentage of males and females with AIDS over three time periods.

• The percentage of people with AIDS who are female has increased from 8% during the 1981-1987 time period to 17.5% of AIDS cases during the 1993-1995 time period.

Source: First 500,000 AIDS Cases -- United States, 1995
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
November 24, 1995, Vol. 44, No 46, pp 849-853.

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