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PEDIATRICS Vol. 114 No. 1 July 2004, pp. 328-329

Missed Opportunities for Perinatal HIV Prevention Among HIV-Exposed Infants Born 1996-2000, Pediatric Spectrum of HIV Disease Cohort

Ani E. Hyslop, MD, MPH
11785 Beltsville Dr
Calverton, MD 20705

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To the Editor. —

With interest I read the article "Missed Opportunities for Perinatal HIV Prevention Among HIV-Exposed Infants Born 1996–2000, Pediatric Spectrum of HIV Disease Cohort" by Peters et al.1 It is a remarkable achievement that the rate of transmission has dropped so dramatically in the United States. Comparing the social and health systems in the United States to those in sub-Saharan Africa, where the magnitude of the problem is exponentially larger (2.6 million children aged 0–14 years vs 10 000 children2 [it is assumed that a large proportion of these children are perinatally infected]) and the resources are exponentially lower, one wonders if the same results can be achieved there. I would . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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V. Peters, K.-L. Liu, B. Gill, P. Thomas, K. Dominguez, T. Frederick, S. K. Melville, H.-W. Hsu, I. Ortiz, T. Rakusan, et al.
Missed Opportunities for Perinatal HIV Prevention Among HIV-Exposed Infants Born 1996-2000, Pediatric Spectrum of HIV Disease Cohort
Pediatrics, September 1, 2004; 114(3): 905 - 906.
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