AIDS 1982-1987

– Notification of AIDS cases in The Netherlands to the Medical Chief Inspectorate is on a voluntary, anonymous basis. In the period 1982-1987 there were 420 patients with AIDS, viz. 4, 16, 31, 59, 126 and 184, respectively, in the successive years. One-quarter were between the ages of 35 and 39 years. Lethality in the group as a whole was 53.

Homo- and bisexual males accounted for 87 of the patients. Infection by blood products occurred in 12 persons, 6 whom were children who as neonates (1981) were all given plasma of the same HIV-positive donor. Among the patients there was one haemophiliac.