[PROBLEMS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN BORN TO HIV-INFECTED MOTHERS]

A special group in the contingent of HIV-infected women comprises childbearing-age women whose infection has commonly occurred sexually. The number of children with the verified diagnosis of HIV infection born to mothers with this infection is also steadily increasing. All examined children had been born to HIV-infected mothers. Biomedical and social factors were found to affect the development of tuberculosis and HIV infection in children. Tuberculin diagnosis in children, at late stages of HIV infection in particular, is of no informative value. Secondary diseases of HIV infection, which exacerbate the course of tuberculosis and make its diagnosis difficult, frequently develop. In all doubtful cases the diagnosis of tuberculosis in an HIV-infected child should be verified bacteriologically or histologically, in disseminated processes in particular.