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Evidence of Heterosexual Transmission

The Collaborative Study Group of AIDS in Haitian-Americans

JAMA. 1987;257(5):635-639.

Abstract
In a study of Haitians in Miami and New York, Creole-speaking interviewers questioned 55 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (45 men and ten women) and 242 control-persons (164 men and 78 women). One male patient was homosexual, and one female patient had received blood within five years. No one admitted to intravenous drug use, hemophilia, or sexual contact with AIDS patients. Male AIDS patients were significantly more likely than control-men to have entered the United States after 1977 and to have had gonorrhea, syphilis, and sexual contact with female prostitutes. Female AIDS patients were more likely to have voodoo-priest friends and to have been offered money for sex. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was probably contracted through sexual contact with infected heterosexuals.

(JAMA 1987;257:635-639)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami; the Department of Medicine, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York; the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad, Chicago; the New York City Department of Health; the Dade County, Florida, Department of Health, Miami; and the AIDS Program, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to the AIDS Program, Bldg 6, Room 285, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333 (Dr Kenneth G. Castro).

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