title: [Aids: present and future].
abstract: In few fields of medicine have advances been as dramatic and fast moving as those in the field of the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a lethal multisystem disease that has become a major public health problem since its first description. Several groups are at increased risk of infection, including homosexuals, intravenous drug abusers, hemophiliacs, and recipients of transfusions of blood or blood products. In this review current and future dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in women and children are discussed. The HIV spread in women of childbearing age and the serious problem of transmission of HIV by blood transfusion are stressed.
authors.affiliation: Servizio di Allergia ed Immunologia, Clinica Pediatrica dell'Università di Roma, La Sapienza.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cantani
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: AIDS: presente e futuro.