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Margaret C. Heagarty, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1991;145(5):527-528.

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), as found in children, represents a microcosm of the problems and failures of this nation's health care system for the poor.

EPIDEMIOLOGY

When Oleske et al¹ and Rubenstein et al² first described the disease in children, it was not evident that AIDS was to become a disease found predominantly in poor children of minority status. But in the years since those first reports appeared, epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that AIDS in children is largely acquired through perinatal transmission from HIV-infected mothers who are or have been involved in intravenous drug use or who have had intercourse with someone involved in the drug culture. About 15% of children with AIDS are hemophiliacs or others who were infected by contaminated blood products before the advent of the national universal HIV blood screening program. Presumably, the number of transfusion-related cases will . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Harlem Hospital Center, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication January 3, 1991.

Reprint requests to Harlem Hospital Center, Department of Pediatrics, 506 Lenox Ave, New York, NY 10037 (Dr Heagarty).

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