GRIM STATISTICS UTAH HAD RECORDED 526
UTAH HAD RECORDED 526 AIDS CASES AS OF FRIDAY, THE UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTED MONDAY.
OF THE TOTAL, WHICH REPRESENTS ACCUMULATIONS SINCE 1983, 328 HAVE DIED. IN 1991, 138 NEW AIDS CASES WERE REPORTED IN UTAH. THIS YEAR, 45 NEW CASES HAVE BEEN ADDED.
ANDREW T. PAVIA, U. DIVISION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, REPORTS IN A HIV EPIDEMIOLOGY PAPER THAT THE NUMBER OF NEW AIDS CASES HAS INCREASED 30 PERCENT TO 49 PERCENT EACH YEAR OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS. HE WROTE THAT UTAH'S RATE OF 5.6 CASES PER 100,000 WAS THE 33RD HIGHEST IN 1990.
UTAH HAS DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH AIDS RATES AMONG WOMEN AND CHILDREN, PAVIA ADDED.
ALMOST 10 PERCENT OF AIDS CASES IN UTAH WERE WOMEN, WHO CONTRACTED THE DISEASE THROUGH HETEROSEXUAL EXPOSURE, THE RESEARCHER WROTE. HE SAID UTAH'S AIDS INCIDENCE OF 2.2 WOMEN PER 100,000 IS THE 13TH HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY. UTAH HAS HAD 12 CHILDREN WITH AIDS AND AN EQUAL NUMBER WITH HIV DISEASE IN THE EARLY STAGES. PAVIA SAID THIS IS 3 PERCENT OF UTAH CASES AND A SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER PROPORTION THAN SEEN NATIONALLY.