Increase in AIDS cases among non-gay drug addicts draws concern. (California)

An increase in AIDS cases among non-gay drug addicts and their sex partners has prompted a San Diego, California, health official to urge the county to make a better effort to prevent HIV from spreading.

"We're very concerned about a potential trend," said Dr. Michele Ginsberg, a county health department epidemiologist. "Infection among intravenous drug users is a major key to the spread of AIDS in San Diego because it's the entree to the non-drug-using heterosexual." Ginsberg stopped short of advocating a needle exchange program for San Diego County, but said the county's latest AIDS statistics should give elected officials another reason to think about starting …