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Profile of Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Descriptive Study

Arundhati Patil , Arundhati Patil* , Keerti Deep**

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Indian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Pediatrics 8(2):p 67-70, May-August 2016. | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijtep.2348.9987.8216.4

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Introduction: Mother to children transmission of HIV is the major source of transmission of HIV to children and continues to be a global public health problem with the WHO statistics estimating that as of 2001­02, nearly 1600 babies worldwide becoming infected everyday. Methodology: All the children who fits to inclusion criteria were clinically evaluated and investigated. Data was collected by using a pre tested semi structured questionnaire. Results: Maximum number of children with in the age group of 18 months to three years i.e. 11 (45.8%), followed by 4 to 6 years with a total of 10 children (41.6%) and children aged 7 and above years constitute 16.6%. Conclusion: The order of symptomatology in most common occurrence were fever, weight loss and wasting was present in all the children with symptomatic HIV disease.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijtep.2348.9987.8216.4

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HIV; Children; Signs & Symptoms.

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