ween 1981 and 1996. Of these 580,00!
             0 cases, about 46 percent have been in Caucasians, 35 percent in blacks, 18 percent in Hispanics, and 1 percent in Asians. Males make up about 84 percent of these cases and females 15 percent. Children account the remaining 1 percent of AIDS cases. Women and children constitute one of the fastest-growing groups of people with AIDS (World Health Organization 32). Fifty-two documented cases and 111 possible cases of occupational transmission of AIDS/HIV had been reported in health-care workers throughout December of 1996. The leading cause of death among Americans aged 25 to 44 years, death for American men among the same age group, and the third leading cause of death among American women in the same age group was AIDS in 1994 and 1995 (W.H.O. 35). AIDS is rapidly expanding on a global scale. The World Health Organization estimates that between 1981, when the first AIDS cases were reported, and the end of 1996, more than 8.4 million adults and children had developed AIDS. In th!
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