EPIDEMIOLOGY OF THE ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)1

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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The social epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Social epidemiology is defined as the study of the distribution of health outcomes and their social determinants (1). It builds on the classic epidemiologic triangle of host, agent, and environment to focus explicitly on the role of social determinants in infectious disease transmission and progression. These determinants are the “features of and pathways by which societal conditions affect hea...

Epidemiology of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Children in Kinshasa, Zaire

The first case of pediatric AIDS from Zaire was verified on 13 December 1983 (1). This was an 11 year old girl who was admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Mama Yemo Hospital, with severe weightloss, chronic diarrhea, mycotic dermatitis, oral moniliasis and bronchopneumonia. She had previously received six blood transfusions. Between December 1983 and March 1984 two more cases of symtomati...

[The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)].

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

\s=b\Pneumocystis carinii antigen and IgG antibody profiles were prepared on 17 pediatric patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with pneumonia who were examined by a variety of invasive methods for P carinii organisms. Overall, the accuracy of the antigen assay in invasively examined pediatric patients with AIDS with pneumonia was 94% (sensitivity, 100%; specificity, 90%), as ...