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Lesson 1. HIV in Infants and Children

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Learning Objective Performance Indicators

  • Discuss basic epidemiologic features of perinatally-acquired HIV and pediatric HIV in the United States
  • Explain the timing and types of diagnostic tests used to diagnose HIV in infants less than 1 year of age and in older children
  • List symptoms and classification of HIV in children using the most recent CDC surveillance case definition for pediatric HIV
  • Summarize antiretroviral therapy management in children, including initiation, adverse effects, and approach to virologic failure
  • Discuss opportunistic infection prevention recommendations for infants and children and how these recommendations are influenced by a child’s age and stage of HIV

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Learning Objective Performance Indicators

  • Discuss basic epidemiologic features of perinatally-acquired HIV and pediatric HIV in the United States
  • Explain the timing and types of diagnostic tests used to diagnose HIV in infants less than 1 year of age and in older children
  • List symptoms and classification of HIV in children using the most recent CDC surveillance case definition for pediatric HIV
  • Summarize antiretroviral therapy management in children, including initiation, adverse effects, and approach to virologic failure
  • Discuss opportunistic infection prevention recommendations for infants and children and how these recommendations are influenced by a child’s age and stage of HIV

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