1. The road less travelled: A social and demographic profile of HIVinfected children accessing care at tertiary care centre in North India.
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Gupta, Meenal, Puri, K. J. P. S., Singh, Karnail, and Malhotra, Suhail
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HIV-positive children , *TERTIARY care , *MEDICAL care - Abstract
Background Human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) affects every strata of society but the illiterate and economically backward people are the most affected. When children with HIV develop clinical manifestations and need treatment, they have to travel from faraway places to access care and management at tertiary institutions. This leads to either noncompliance with treatment or wastage of meagre resources of the patient. Methods Four hundred children diagnosed with HIV/AIDS coming to the Department of Dermatology in a hospital in North India for diagnosis and treatment of various skin disorders were questioned with respect to their family's social, economic and educational background. Demographic variables such as age, sex, education, occupation and data on clinical manifestations were reviewed. Results Out of the 400 children, males outnumbered females in the ratio of 1.96:1. Most of the children were in the age group of 10-15 years (55.75%) and the majority belonged to rural areas (88.25%). Most of the children were going to school in the standards appropriate for their age. The most common mucocutaneous manifestations in these children were oral candidiasis (10%), staphylococcal skin infections (12.5%) and pruritic papular eruptions (12.5%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013