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Paediatric HIV Infection and AIDS : UNAIDS point of view

14 August 2002

This Best Practice document examines how children become infected with HIV; what can be done to prevent infection in children, which includes health education and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission; and, finally, the various ways of reducing the impact of HIV on children (such as promoting early awareness, improving diagnostic facilities, providing vitamin A supplementation and immunization).