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Healthcare Use Patterns

Children with HIV more likely to use health services than infected adults

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 24th, 2003

Although more American adults than children are infected with HIV, children with the disease use more HIV related healthcare services, a Johns Hopkins Children's Center researcher reports.

"Because infants and toddlers are more likely to visit their pediatrician on a regular basis, and because physicians believe that administering highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to babies and infants early on helps establish and maintain levels of viral suppression, we weren't really surprised by these results," said the study's lead author, George Siberry, MD, a pediatrician at the Children's Center.

"However, our study, believed to be one of the first...

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