AIDS-Related Deaths in the United States

The number of AIDS-related deaths for persons age 15-54 was derived
from the CDC, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, Year-end editions. Deaths
in the U.S. population for persons age 15-54 were taken from the CDC,
Monthly Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 42, No. 2(S); Vol. 43, No. 12; Vol.
43, No. 6(S); Vol. 45, No. 3(S); and Vol. 45, No. 11(S).

AIDS-related deaths as a percentage of all deaths in the U.S. population
were calculated by dividing the national estimate of AIDS deaths of
persons age 15-54 by the national mortality estimates of persons age 15-54
in a given year.

HIV Prevalence Rates from Blinded Studies

Data from blinded studies on HIV prevalence rates in Massachusetts,
Maryland, California, and New York were gathered from several sources:

B. Werner et al., “Drop in HIV Seroprevalence among Men and Women
Entering Massachusetts Prisons,” Abstract No. 115, presented at the Third
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Washington,
D.C., January 28-February 1, 1996.

C. Behrendt et al., “Voluntary Testing for HIV in a Prison Population with
a High Prevalence of HIV.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 139
(1994) pp. 918-26.

J. Ruiz and J. Mikanda, Seroprevalence of HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C,
and Risk Behaviors among Inmates Entering the California Correctional
System (Sacramento: California Department of Health Services, Office of
AIDS, HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Branch, March 1996).

J. Mikl et al., “Trends in HIV Infection Rates among New York
State Prison Inmates, 1987-1997,” Poster abstract Number 23516,
presented at the 12th World Congress on AIDS, Geneva, June 30,
1997.