Los Angeles County Statistics

As of June 30, 1999, 1591 children less than 13 years of age have been reported
as being HIV-exposed or infected. The majority of the infected and exposed children
are infected perinatally (75 percent). Among the children with perinatally acquired infection, 21 percent had a mother who was an injection drug user (IDU), 12 percent
had a mother who had sex with an IDU, and 38 percent of the time the mother was
a known to be infected with HIV. The 25 percent of children not affected before
birth break down as follows: 18 percent were infected through blood
transfusion, 6 percent from hemophilia/coagylation
disorders, and 1 percent unknown.


National Statistics

From June 1999 - July 2000, 224 new pediatric AIDS cases were reported,
bringing the cumulative total number of children affected in the
United States to 8,804 reported cases.

From June 1999 - July 2000, 225 new pediatric HIV infection cases were reported,
bringing the cumulative total number of children affected in the
United States to 2,063 reported cases.


Global Statistics

As of the end of 2000, 1.4 million children younger than 15 years were living with HIV/AIDS. More than 70 percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and another 16 percent
live in South and Southeast Asia. Through 2000,cumulative HIV/AIDS-associated
deaths worldwide numbered approximately 4.3 million for children younger
than 15 years. HIV/AIDS-associated illnesses caused the deaths of an
estimated 500,000 children in this age category.

An estimated 13.2 million children younger than age 15 had lost their mothers or both parents by the end of 1999. Mother-to-child (vertical) transmission has accounted
for more than 90 percent of all HIV infections worldwide in infants and children.




Los Angeles County statistics provided by the
Los Angeles County Pediatric Spectrum of Disease, June 2000 Data Summary,
published by the L.A. County Department of Health Services.

National statistics provided by the publication
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, Midyear edition Vol. 12, No. 1
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Global statistics provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseasese, UNAIDS Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, June 2000 and December 2000.