RT Book, Section
A1 Lowenthal, Elizabeth D.
A1 Steenhoff, Andrew P.
A1 Rennert, Wolfgang
A1 Rutstein, Richard M.
A2 Shah, Samir S.
A2 Kemper, Alex R.
A2 Ratner, Adam J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1157323411
T1 Care of the HIV-Infected Child
T2 Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259861536
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157323411
RD 2024/04/25
AB In  June  1981,  the  first  cases  in  the  United  States  of  what  was  later  called  acquired  immunodeficiency  syndrome  (AIDS)  were  reported.1  Today,  approximately  1.2  million  people  in  the  United  States  are  estimated  to  be  living  with  the  human  immunodeficiency  virus  (HIV).1  In  the  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  has  declined  slowly  such  that  fewer  than  40,000  AIDS  cases  are  now  diagnosed  annually.1,2