ild Watch BY MARIAN WRIGHT RDELMAN THAN A MEDICAL CHALLENGE fighting for her life, and is only 2V4 years old. She --nia, but still has trouble gaining weight. She a day and taken liquid food supplements She acquired the virus tram her parents, both of whom have histories of drug and have tested positive for HIV. Danielle is one of an 2,000 children (younger than 12) suffering from AIDS. Women and children are the fastest growing population infected with AIDS. What is rfartnng is the disproportionate number of black children afflicted with the disease. They account for 52 percent of reported pediatric AIDS cases. Although the effects of HIV are hard to predict, Danielle receives good quality medical treatment, thanks to a unique clinic. The Immunology Family Clinic at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia treats HIV-infected children and addresses the whole family’s health and service needs. Every family is assigned a case worker, who their care. With help from the family’s case worker, Danielle’s parents can arrange for drug rehabilitation for themselves, food supplements for their daughter through the Women, Infants and Children and other pro grams, a home aide from a local AIDS support group to take care of Danielle, and transportation to and from their next appointment—all during the same visit. There’s a growing recognition that one-stop family care similar to that at (SlOP'is crittcalWfMdmSaSected by HIV. Since the majority of such families are pdor, and many are headed by only one parent, all the daily (-Haiionfl— frying any family with chronically ill children are multiplied. In addition, since transmission from parents is the most common way children acquire HTV. parents mav he too sick themselves to care for their children, or several children may be ill at Hie same time. Despite all the obstacles, many families manage on their own to get the care and services their children need. “The strength these families have to overcome many, many barriers to get care for their children continues to , me,” says CHOP social worker Vicki Ellis., Even so, comprehensive, ' <»nAr»«wi»t«H services help make sure that the care is consistent. In Danielle’s mm says Ellis, “I think the child probably would not have gotten to medical appointments, except maybe in acute emergencies. The family has too many other issues to deal with.” ultimately, coordinated services for families affected by the disease is only part of a full response to pediatric AIDS. There is a host of other urgent issues to deal with: HIV prevention.pediatric AIDS research, gaps in health insuraneecoverage, public ignorance and discrimination against people with HIV. and the need for specialized foster care and family preservation. No one knows better than the families themselves how much remains to done. 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