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 - 2024/10/07 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6911239 ER -