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AIDS deaths in Canada and the United States have dropped to their lowest level since 1987, moving the disease off the list of the 15 leading causes of death in North America. According to the United States’ National Center for Health Statistics, the age-adjusted death rate linked to infection with the AIDS virus, dropped 21 percent to 4.6 per 100,000 persons in 1998, following a 48 percent decline from 1996 to 1997. Canada’s Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) reports that in 1997 there were 44.1 percent fewer reported AIDS cases than in 1996. And deaths linked to infection with AIDS dropped 45 percent in 1998, following a 58 percent decline from 1996 to 1997. The first AIDS-like cases were identified as early as 1872, but the disease was first recognized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 1981. From July 1998 through June 1999, a total of 47,083 AIDS cases were reported, compared with 54,140 and 64,597 cases reported in the two preceding 12-month periods. The decrease in AIDS incidence is paralleled by a decrease in the number of AIDS deaths. Deaths decreased 42 percent from 1996 to 1997, and 20 percent from 1997 to 1998. The cumulative total of AIDS deaths in the United States (as of June 30, 1999) was 420,201. Since 1982, when the LCDC reported Canada’s first AIDS case, the cumulative total deaths due to the disease (as of June 30, 1999) amounted to 11,619. |
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