Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Letter
HIV-1 CRF07_BC Infections, Injecting Drug Users, Taiwan
Yi-Ming Arthur Chen*
, Yu-Ching Lan*, Shu-Fen Lai*, Jyh-Yuan Yang†, Su-Fen Tsai†, and Steve Hsu-Sung Kuo†
, Yu-Ching Lan*, Shu-Fen Lai*, Jyh-Yuan Yang†, Su-Fen Tsai†, and Steve Hsu-Sung Kuo†Table
Annual number of HIV/AIDS cases reported to Taiwan Center for Disease Control, classified by risk group
| Risk factors | No. case by year | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| HIV+ | 174 | 228 | 277 | 350 | 401 | 479 | 535 | 654 | 773 | 859 | 1513 |
| AIDS | 63 | 98 | 159 | 135 | 152 | 179 | 179 | 161 | 178 | 227 | 254 |
| Heterosexuals | 85 | 109 | 134 | 154 | 189 | 214 | 235 | 275 | 310 | 251 | 244 |
| Homosexuals | 46 | 70 | 96 | 137 | 141 | 178 | 223 | 287 | 335 | 341 | 339 |
| Bisexuals | 27 | 41 | 37 | 47 | 59 | 70 | 61 | 64 | 79 | 51 | 54 |
| Hemophiliacs | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Injection drug users | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 70 | 462 |
| Blood recipients | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Vertical transmission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Unknown | 8 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 24 | 36 | 145 | 410 |
| Total | 174 | 228 | 277 | 350 | 401 | 479 | 534 | 654 | 773 | 859 | 1513 |
