Document 0777
 DOCN  M9470777
 TI    [HIV antibody positive children in Denmark]
 DT    9409
 AU    Olofsson MJ; Scheibel E; Clausen N; Pedersen FK; Peitersen B; Dansk
       Paediatrisk Selskabs AIDS-udvalg, Kobenhavn.
 SO    Ugeskr Laeger. 1994 Apr 25;156(17):2575-9. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94287559
 AB    The AIDS-committee of The Danish Society of Paediatrics has done a
       nation-wide study among infants and children under the age of 15 with
       AIDS or HIV-antibodies in preparation for planning prevention and
       treatment. Clinical data have been collected from the Departments of
       Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Haemophilia, Dermatology and
       Internal Medicine up to 1 March 1993. The study includes 44 infants with
       a risk of vertical transmission from the mother and 16 children with
       haemophilia. No cases were found to be infected by blood-transfusion.
       Twenty of the 44 infants with congenital HIV-antibodies were
       HIV-infected. Seven of them died from AIDS, 10 currently have AIDS and
       three are asymptomatic. Seventeen infants are well and HIV-antibody
       negative after the age of 18 months. Seven infants still have
       unclarified status, but all are well. Three of the patients with
       haemophilia are dead. The 13 others do not have AIDS. It is surprising
       that most of the infected infants' mothers were not known to be infected
       before the infants got sick. Thus infected infants exist in families who
       are not suspected to be HIV-infected. The AIDS-committee of The Danish
       Society of Paediatrics has proposed recommendations for HIV-testing of
       infants and children. HIV-infected families need comprehensive
       psychosocial care. The risk-factor from blood-transfusion is now
       eliminated, but vertical transmission will continue to be a risk-factor.
       The size of the problem in Denmark will not be known until an
       epidemiological study of pregnant women has been conducted.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/DIAGNOSIS/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       *TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  Adult  Child  Child, Preschool
       Denmark/EPIDEMIOLOGY  English Abstract  Female  Human  HIV
       Seropositivity/*TRANSMISSION  Infant  Infant, Newborn  Pregnancy
       Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/PREVENTION & CONTROL  Prognosis
       Risk Factors  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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