AEGiS-APPJ: Foster Care Needs of Children with HIV Infection

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Foster Care Needs of Children with HIV Infection

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 3, no. 1 (Winter 1988): 8-9
Mary G. Boland et al.

The Children's Hospital AIDS Program (CHAP) of Newark, New Jersey, has been providing comprehensive services to children and their families since 1983. As we became involved with these children, we realized that many of their families had pre-existing social problems that resulted in foster care placement of the child prior to the diagnosis of HIV infection. Forty-two percent of the families were known to the family protective services agency, the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS). Thirty-five percent of the children receiving care were in foster care. At placement, the majority of children were asymptomatic infants. In most cases, the diagnosis was made after placement. Most of the mothers had a long-term involvement with DYFS and many had more than one child in placement. While the placements were considered temporary, to date none of the children has been reunited with his or her mother.
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