Disease in children with HIV infection in Abidjan

doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7041.1302c

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Authors should have emphasised lack of tuberculosis in HIV positive children

Charles Gilks

Senior lecturer Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA

EDITOR,—Sebastian B Lucas and colleagues report an impressive series of paediatric necropsies from Abidjan, documenting the range of disease in African children infected with HIV.1 The sampling method was to carry out a necropsy on all HIV positive children in the mortuary during the study period and “randomly selected children” who were HIV negative. How random sampling was done is not discussed. The authors state that most children who die in the hospital and the community (the city) pass through the mortuary …