| pediatric aids: prevention of hiv infection in infants and children. | the centers for disease control reported that 109,167 cases of aids had been diagnosed since 1981 and that approximately 40,000 persons were living with aids at the time of this writing. these numbers, however, are the tip of an iceberg that consists of approximately 1.5 million americans who are infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). as we described in earlier articles of this series, the hiv infection/aids epidemic has invaded the domain of the american family through heterosexual ... | 1990 | 2408177 |