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- Title
HIV-Infected Parents and Their Children in the United States.
- Authors
Schuster, Mark A.; Kanouse, David E.; Morton, Sally C.; Bozzette, Samuel A.; Miu, Angela; Scott, Gwendolyn B.; Shapiro, Martin F.
- Abstract
Objectives. This study sought to determine the number, characteristics, and living situations of children of HIV-infected adults. Methods. Interviews were conducted in 1996 and early 1997 with a nationally representative probability sample of 2864 adults receiving health care for HIV within the contiguous United States. Results. Twenty-eight percent of infected adults in care had children. Women were more likely than men to have children (60% vs 18%) and to live with them (76% vs 34%). Twenty-one percent of parents had been hospitalized during the previous 6 months, and 10% had probably been drug dependent in the previous year. Parents continued to have children after being diagnosed with HIV: 12% of all women conceived and bore their youngest child after diagnosis, and another 10% conceived before but gave birth after diagnosis. Conclusions. Clinical and support services for people affected by the HIV epidemic should have a family focus. (Am d Public Health. 2000:90: 1074-1081)
- Subjects
AIDS prevention; PREVENTIVE medicine; PUBLIC health; HIV infections; LENTIVIRUS diseases; MEDICAL care
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2000, Vol 90, Issue 7, p1074
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.90.7.1074