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This report focuses on the geographic distribution of HIV/AIDS in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Over 85% of cumulative adult/adolescent AIDS cases have been reported from large metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and approximately 6% from nonmetropolitan areas. In...

This brochure provides information on the prevention of infections from pets for persons with HIV. Most persons with HIV can keep their pets but they should know the health risks associated with owning a pet or caring for animals. Animals may carry diseases that if passed to a person with HIV can...

This pamphlet examines HIV among children and adolescents internationally. The pamphlet discusses the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among young persons, the factors and behaviors that place them at risk for HIV, and intervention strategies to prevent the spread of HIV to children and adolescents, as well...

This pamphlet examines HIV among children and adolescents internationally. The pamphlet discusses the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among young persons, the factors and behaviors that place young persons at risk for HIV, statistics on children who have been orphaned as a result of the epidemic, and...

This poster examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and adolescents around the world. The poster discusses the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among young people, the needs of AIDS orphans, and the prevention of the perinatal transmission of HIV.

This monograph provides a programming framework to assist national health managers and implementing partners in resource-constrained settings that have a high burden of HIV. The monograph gives information about scaling up HIV prevention, and the diagnosis, care, and treatment for children exposed...

This report updates and combines earlier versions of guidelines for preventing and treating opportunistic infections (OIs) among HIV-exposed and infected children. The guidelines discuss opportunistic pathogens that occur in the United States, including one that might be acquired during...

This slide set presents surveillance data on children younger than age 13 years with HIV in the United States. Slides include: 1) Diagnoses of HIV infected among children aged <13 years, by age at diagnosis, 2008-2011, United States and 6 dependent areas; 2) Diagnoses of HIV infected among children aged <13 years, by race/ethnicity, 2008-2011, United States and 6 dependent areas; 3) Diagnoses of HIV infection and population in children aged <13 years, by race/ethnicity, 2011, United States; 4) Time of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in HIV-infected pregnant women or perinatally exposed infants, birth years 2008-2011, United States; 5) HIV diagnostic outcomes among infants, by time of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment birth years 2008-2011 - United States; 6) Time of maternal HIV testing among infants with pertinatally acquired HIV infection birth years 2008-2011 - United States; 7) Perinatally acquired HIV infections in children born during 2011 - United States and 6 dependent areas; 8) Persons living with perintally acquired HIV infection year-end 2010 - United States and 6 dependent areas; 9) Stage 3 (AIDS) classifications among perinatally infected persons, 1985-2011 - United States and 6 dependent areas; 10) Stage 3 (AIDS) classifications among children ages <13 years, by race/ethnicity, 1985-2011 - United States and 6 dependent areas; and 11) Persons living with perinatally acquired HIV infection ever classified as Stage 3 (AIDS), year-end 2010 United States and 6 dependent areas.

This poster illustrates the 12 populations being left behind worldwide in the fight against HIV/AIDS, including: people living with HIV but don't know it, young women, prisoners, migrants, injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgendered persons, pregnant women, children...

This report updates CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) 1996 recommendations on the prevention of hepatitis A through immunization (MMWR 1996;45[RR-15].) and includes (1) new data about the epidemiology of hepatitis A; (2) recent findings about the effectiveness of community...