HIV infection and children: A medical overview

From: Child Welfare | Date: March 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

A decade has passed since the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) National Task Force on Children and HIV Infection published its Initial Guidelines on HIV Infection, a monograph that evolved in response to questions raised at a seminar sponsored by CWLA the previous year. At that 1987 seminar, "Attention to AIDS," a compelling need to develop sound child welfare policy based on incomplete but best available medical experience was voiced, and CWLA took the lead in responding. Ten years later, despite multiple advances in medical care, the social, medical, and legal challenges of HIV/AIDS ...

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