The Nation - News from July 24, 1989

At least 100,000 people in the United States now have AIDS. When the monthly total for July is compiled and released in late August, Centers for Disease Control experts are sure that America’s count of total AIDS cases will, for the first time, officially pass 100,000. Many experts have admitted that the AIDS case total is a rough estimate, but what the official total does emphasize is that there has been no retreat or slowing in the statistical march of AIDS. By 1992, the federal agency expects there will be a cumulative total of 365,000 confirmed cases of AIDS. The agency also predicts that within three years the total number of U.S. residents killed by AIDS will reach 263,000.