Children, adolescents and HIV infection
Kuznetsova, V.V.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 1999(1): 112-113
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 10096232 Document Number: 505376
The analysis of the occurrence of HIV infection in adults, children and adolescents under 18 years of age on the basis of statistical data by February 1, 1997, is presented. The total number HIV-infected persons registered by this date was 6,232; among them 902 (14.5%) were children and adolescents. 267 children were infected in the hospital focus of HIV infection; of these, 80 children (30%) died of AIDS during the period of 1989 - 1997. In 1992 only 16 adolescents, HIV infected were registered, while in 1995 the number of HIV-infected registered, while in 1995 the number of HIV-infected adolescents was 34, in 1996 their number rose to 144 and in 1997, to 435. The main cause of adolescent infections (80%) was the intravenous injection of narcotic drugs.