A Perspective on Pediatric AIDS

Abstract

From the early days of the epidemic of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) until now, there have been 1,013 cases of AIDS among children under the age of 13. This represents less than 2% of the total. In a society fascinated by numbers, 2% is not very much, but each child with AIDS presents our society with a special medical and social challenge, one, I hasten to add, that we are still generally unprepared to meet.