Hodgson, I. (1997) - Infants and children with HIV and AIDSHealth Visitor, 70 (12), pp 467 - 469[Webplaced 17th September 1998] Summary Children with HIV and AIDS have a number of specific and unique needs relating to their condition. This paper considers: the vectors of transmission; the distinct manifestations of viral activity; the role of the family; and the implications of long term survival in children due to improvements in drug regimes. HIV has successfuly established itself in all layers of human strata: health care workers and carers would be wise to consider HIV not as an infection confined any particular social group, but to all the ages of man described by Shakespeare in As You Like it - from the infant mewing and puking in his mother's arms, through to second childishness and mere oblivion..sans teeth..sans everything (II, 7). |
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