The challenges of success: adolescents with perinatal HIV infection
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The challenges of success: adolescents with perinatal HIV infection
The great success in the prevention and treatment of pediatric HIV in high resource countries, and now in low resource countries, has changed the face of the HIV epidemic in children from one of near certain mortality to that of a chronic disease. However, these successes pose new challenges as perinatally HIV-infected youth survive into adulthood. Increased survival of HIV-infected children is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International AIDS Society
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1758-2652
DOI: 10.7448/ias.16.1.18650