Where would you get advice on how to manage a child with HIV? From a textbook like this, from the internet, or would you phone-a-friend? Paediatricians in the UK are increasingly likely to see children infected with, or affected by, HIV. Reasons for this include an increasing number of children with HIV and antenatal screening for HIV, which is identifying increasing numbers of infants at risk of mother to child infection. Most of these children will live in the London area, but 25% are now living in other parts of the UK. Paediatricians thus need information to help them manage these children. This book will provide some useful background information on HIV and about its …