RT Book, Section A1 Steenhoff, Andrew P. A1 Rennert, Wolfgang A1 Rutstein, Richard M. A2 Shah, Samir S. SR Print(0) ID 6911239 T1 Chapter 53. Care of the HIV-Infected Child T2 Pediatric Practice: Infectious Disease YR 2009 FD 2009 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-148924-9 LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6911239 RD 2024/10/07 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.