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Article: Neurodevelopmental abnormalities in school-age children with HIV infection. (human immunodeficiency virus)
- Article from:
- Journal of School Health
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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As of December 1992, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 4,247 cases of AIDS in children under age 13, but many more cases have not yet been reported. By 1995, up to an estimated 20,000 children may develop HIV infection in the United States. As a result, HIV infection is becoming a leading cause of death in urban children, ages one to four years, especially among children of African-American or Hispanic backgrounds.
Women and children are, from an epidemiologic standpoint, the most rapdily growing group among those infected. Centers of the epidemic remain in the inner cities, but with increasing heterosexual spread, more cases are occurring ...