AAP News Vol. 14 No. 4 April 1998, p. 1
© 1998 American Academy of Pediatrics
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Expanded reporting of pediatric HIV/AIDS pays big dividends in prevention, care

Carol Hart Ph.D.

The child with HIV or AIDS has urgent health care needs of increasing complexity. To the pediatrician who provides this care, filling out a surveillance report can seem irrelevant and a bureaucratic waste of time, yet accurate HIV and AIDS surveillance has a powerful impact on prevention and care.

"Surveillance is not obvious to many physicians in practice, who view it as a pain in the neck and don't really see the benefit. But the benefit is very great," said Lynne Mofenson, M.D., FAAP. She is a pediatric infectious disease specialist with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and an author of the AAP policy statement "Surveillance of Pediatric HIV Infection," which appeared in the February Pediatrics.