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Three hundred children and adolescents living with AIDS are followed at the Albert Royer Hospital in Fann. "The vast majority of (cases) are infected by their mothers," says Dr Aminata Diack, chief of the outpatient department, who tracks children affected by HIV. Diack reports that "the child well treated can grow, go to school, have activities and not be marked at all by the disease. Moreover, informs the pediatrician, some ex-residents of the structure where she officiates, "had their baccalaureate, others married and had children uninfected."
But some problems remain. "The difficulty in pediatrics, says Aminata Diack, is that, unlike the adult who cares alone, with the child, we need a person who accompanies him in the care, willing to invest in the long run and who understood that we can take care of an infected child without risk.
The pediatrician also cites, among the difficulties, the "lack of human resources", the lack of pediatric doctors, the "recurrent breaks in the supply of certain molecules" …
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