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. 2000 Jul;90(7):1074-81.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.90.7.1074.

HIV-infected parents and their children in the United States

M A Schuster  1 , D E Kanouse, S C Morton, S A Bozzette, A Miu, G B Scott, M F Shapiro
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HIV-infected parents and their children in the United States

M A Schuster et al. Am J Public Health. 2000 Jul.

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.

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