Pneumonia risk far higher for HIV-positive children, study shows

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 18:40 in Health & Medicine

HIV-positive children in developing countries are six times more likely to die from pneumonia than children without the virus, research suggests. The first global study into pneumonia deaths in children with HIV has found that, in one year, pneumonia affected 1.4 million children and led to a further 88,000 deaths.

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