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MEDISAN

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SOSA ZAMORA, Mariela et al. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in children institutionalized in Mpilo National Hospital (Zimbabwe). MEDISAN [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.2. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study of the human immunodeficiency syndrome was carried out in children institutionalized in Mpilo National Hospital in Zimbabwe from April, 2005 to March, 2006. The case material was formed by all the children up to 12 years, attended in the Opportunistic Infections Clinic belonging to this hospital and where they were previously diagnosed with the disease during their admissions. Variables such as age, sex, route of infection, clinical stages, more frequent associated diseases and main causes of death were analyzed. It was found that the most affected group was between 18 months and 4 years, with a higher incidence in the female; that children in stages III and IV of the syndrome prevailed, as well as that they were predominantly associated with the infectious process: oral candidiasis, bacterial pneumonias and persistent diarrheas. Among the main causes of death were pneumonias by Neumocistis carinii in infants under 18 months and bacterial pneumonias in children over that age.

Palabras clave : ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [complications]; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [epidemiology]; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [mortality]; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; AIDS RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS.

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