HIV infection in children
Infection with HIV in children is usually by one of two routes:
- about 80% are as a result of vertical transmission
- the remaining 20% are from infected blood products; this group should decline with improved screening.
The former group tends to have a more virulent course of illness; the latter more closely resembles the adult infection.
Related pages
- Risk factors influencing transmission
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Prognosis of HIV infection in children
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- HIV (congenital)
- Risk of HIV transmission from mother to child
- Factors affecting HIV transmission from mother to child
- Interventions to prevent mother to child HIV transmission
- If maternal HIV infection - infant follow-up and post natal prophylaxis
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