ABSTRACT
The impact of the AIDS epidemic on the Puerto Rican population has reached alarming proportions. From 1981 until mid-June, 1994, 13,517 persons have been diagnosed with AIDS in a population of some 3.2 million inhabitants (Department of Health, 1994). By 1991, AIDS was the fourth overall cause of mortality, and the first cause of death among men between 25 and 49 years of age and among women between 29 and 39 years of age (Department of Health, 1993). Since neither cure nor vaccine will be available in the near future, prevention is at present the only means toward minimizing the epidemic.
