Summary of Notifiable Diseases,
United States 1998
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Trends in AIDS incidence among children continued to demonstrate the success of efforts to reduce perinatal (i. e., mother to child) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission and, more recently, the use of anti–retroviral treatments that slow the progression from HIV infection to AIDS. During 1992–1997, the number of perinatally acquired cases declined 67%. Despite these declines, new cases continue to occur among children aged <13 years who are dispropor- tionally from racial and ethnic minority populations.