27 (Xinhuanet) -- With a rate of 128cases per 100,000 people, Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of AIDS in the United States, while the national rate is 14 cases per 100,000, according to a report released Tuesday."Heterosexual contact in the District is the leading mode of HIV transmission at 37 percent of newly reported infections, while nationally men who have sex with men lead new transmissions," it said.
The report, the first to look at the HIV epidemic in Washington specifically, found that nearly 70 percent of all people with HIV developed full-blown AIDS within a year, which means they were diagnosed years after having been infected.
This compares with 39 percent nationally.
Dr.
Shannon Hader of Washington's Department of Health said the report does not examine why Washington is hit so hard by the human immunodeficiency virus."We have a lot of transmission going on among heterosexuals, we have a lot of transmission going on with men who have sex with men and we have a lot of transmission among injecting drug users," Hader said.
(Agencies)
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