What You Ought to Know About Pediatric and Perinatal HIV
Laura Hoyt, MD
Infectious Disease and Immunology,
Children’s of Minnesota
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Minnesota
August 12, 2009
Teaching Objectives:
1.Understand the power of intervention in the prevention of maternal-to-child-transmission of HIV
2.Describe the epidemiology of pediatric and perinatal HIV locally, nationally and internationally
3.Recognize the advances in therapy for HIV infected children