Pediatric Infectious Disease
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According to the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics…
- Children have an increased risk for developing severe disease within weeks to months of infection making them high priorities when identified as contacts to infectious patients.
- In 2007, infectious diseases contributed to 12.5% of all infant deaths and to almost 400,000 years of potential life lost because of infant deaths.
- Today, most children with HIV are born to women who receive inadequate prenatal care: the risk of passing HIV from mother to child is less than 1 percent, compared with 28 percent without treatment. Therefore, access to care for pregnant women is critical for reducing HIV infections in infants.
- Strategies to prevent childhood TB include identifying and promptly initiating treatment for adults with active TB to interrupt transmission.
