Federal policy and adolescent AIDS

✍ Scribed by Brian L. Wilcox

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 661 KB
• Volume: 1990
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1520-3247
• DOI: 10.1002/cd.23219905006

✦ Synopsis

Federal policy concerning adolescent AIDS has been piecemeal, with .little recognition of the special problems confronting adolescents.

Federal Policy and Adolescent AIDS

Brian L. wilwx During the early years of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic, little attention was given by policymakers to adolescents as a potential risk group for HlV infection and AIDS. This relative neglect was due in large part to the immediacy of the threat of HJY and AIDS to other groups such as gay men, hemophiliacs, intravenous drug users, and infants born to HJY-infected mothers. But also, few policymakers appreciated that the long latency period between initial exposure to the virus and onset of symptoms meant that many young adults in the twenty-to twenty-nine-year-old age range were infected with HIV as adolescents (Miller, Turner, and Moses,