TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 53. Care of the HIV-Infected Child
A1  - Steenhoff, Andrew P.
A1  - Rennert, Wolfgang
A1  - Rutstein, Richard M.
A2  - Shah, Samir S.
Y1  - 2009
N1  - 
T2  - Pediatric Practice: Infectious Disease
AB  - In  June  1981,  the  first  cases  in  the  United  States  of  what  was  later  called  acquired  immunodeficiency  syndrome  (AIDS)  were  reported.1  In  the  decades  since,  the  human  immunodeficiency  virus  (HIV)  epidemic  in  the  United  States  has  resulted  in  more  than  900,000  individuals  diagnosed  with  AIDS,  as  reported  to  the  Centers  for  Disease  Control  by  the  end  of  2004.2  In  general  population,  the  number  of  new  AIDS  cases  reported  annually  increased  rapidly  in  the  1980s  and  peaked  in  1992  with  an  estimated  78,000  cases  diagnosed.  In  1998,  the  epidemic  stabilized  and  since  then  approximately  40,000  AIDS  cases  have  been  diagnosed  annually.  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6911239
ER  -