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Do HIV-Infected Children in Foster Care Have Access to Clinical Trials of New Treatments?

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 5, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 3-8
Judith M. Martin and Henry S. Sacks

We conducted a survey to determine how state agencies and pediatric investigators are approaching the treatment of HIV-infected children in foster care. The state agencies reported more than 331,000 children in foster care (a designation that includes any child out of home placement). Of these, more than 785 were known to be HIV infected. A few states did not report the number of infected children because they do not compile this information. Of the HIV-infected children, 15 (< 2.0 percent) were known to be enrolled in clinical trials. Only seven of the states have a policy that explicitly addresses the issue of participation in clinical trials by foster children.
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