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According to UNICEF there were 3.4 million HIV-positive children under 15years old and 250,000 AIDS deaths were registered in children under 15years old worldwide in 2010. In 2010, 390,000 children were infected with HIV globally. That same year, in North America there were 4,500 children under 15years of age who were infected with HIV. Most of them were infected by vertical transmission, from their mothers, during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding. Children may also become infected through certain risk behaviors such as sharing needles and other injection paraphernalia, unprotected sexual intercourse, and violent situations such as rape and sexual abuse. Infection due to blood transfusion has become relatively uncommon.
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Benghiac, AG. (2013). Children. In: Loue, S. (eds) Mental Health Practitioner's Guide to HIV/AIDS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5283-6_18
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