Heterosexually Transmitted Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection among Pregnant Women in a Rural Florida Community

IN the United States, women account for an increasing number and percentage of the cases of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among adults. 1 Data through 1991 indicate that 84 percent of the women with AIDS were of reproductive age (15 to 44 years old), and almost three fourths of them were black (53 percent) or Hispanic (21 percent). Although slightly more than half the cases in women were among users of injection drugs, the proportion in women who reported heterosexual contact with high-risk partners increased from 29 percent in 1986 to 34 percent in 1991. In addition, although most cases . . .