Women and HIV Disease: Falling Through the Cracks

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DIANE Publishing, 1993 - 247 pages
Focuses on three crucial interrelated issues associated with HIV disease in women: the AIDS case definition and its functions; research on disease progression or natural history of HIV in women; and access to disability benefits through the Social Security Administration. The incidence of AIDS is rising faster among women than any other group, yet women with HIV infection are falling through the cracks because their doctors don1t recognize that they have HIV disease. Graphs.

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Page 161 - Centers for Disease Control. Revision of the CDC surveillance case definition for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Page 70 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 4, 1992 FOR RELEASE ONLY UPON DELIVERY Good Morning Mr.
Page 140 - HIV culture or serum antigen test, if done; OR b. a serum specimen from a child < 15 months of age, whose mother is thought to have had HIV infection during the child's perinatal period, that is repeatedly reactive for HIV antibody by a screening test...
Page 157 - Centers for Disease Control. Revision of the case definition of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome for national reporting — United States.
Page 226 - ... definitively, especially when therapy that would be used may have serious side effects or when definitive diagnosis is needed for eligibility for antiretroviral therapy. Nonetheless, in some situations, a patient's condition will not permit the performance of definitive tests. In other situations, accepted clinical practice may be to diagnose presumptively based on the presence of characteristic clinical and laboratory abnormalities.
Page 161 - Use of trade names is for identification only and does not constitute endorsement by the Public Health Service or by the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Page 140 - ... period, that is repeatedly reactive for HIV antibody by a screening test (eg, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA]), as long as subsequent HIV-antibody tests (eg, Western blot, immunofluorescence assay), if done, are positive; or b. a serum specimen from a child <15 months of age, whose mother is thought to have had HIV infection during the child's perinatal period, that is repeatedly reactive for HIV antibody by a screening test (eg...
Page 171 - ... progressing over weeks to months, in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings.
Page 163 - PLH complex) affecting a child <13 years of age 9. Mycobacterium avium complex or M kansasii disease, disseminated (at a site other than or in addition to lungs, skin, or cervical or hilar lymph nodes) 10. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia 11. progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy 12. toxoplasmosis of the brain affecting a patient > 1 month of age II. With laboratory Evidence for HIV Infection Regardless of the presence of other causes of immunodeficiency...

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