Preventing AIDS: Prospects for Change in White Male Intravenous Drug Users

By 1991, some 270,000 people in the United States will have AIDS or will have died from the disease; how many others will be infected is uncertain, partly because the virus is spreading into the general population at an unknown rate (Barnes 1986). The proportion of AIDS cases who are IVDUs is expected to remain about the same, with an increase in cases among their sexual partners.