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Summary
Increasing numbers of children born to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-positive
women are being identified, but guidelines as to their management are lacking. We
have therefore established a paediatric counselling and screening clinic for managing
such children in Edinburgh. During a period of 3 years, 49 infants and children of
43 HIV seropositive women have been seen. After a median follow-up period of 23 months,
four children were found to have clinical evidence of HIV disease which was non-specific
and could have been missed had they not been regularly monitored. Thus, close surveillance
of infants born to seropositive women is important. Identifying a single clinic where
this is done has allowed experience to accumulate on issues beyond the medical management
of these infants as well as contributing to the clinical care of infants with symptoms.
Based on this experience, we have developed guidelines for managing children born
to HIV antibody-positive women.
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Accepted:
October 27,
1988
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© 1989 The British Society for the Study of Infection. Published by Elsevier Inc.
