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letsdothis3 ago

Forgot to add this: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.92.2.163

A startlingly high percentage of older children with HIV have severe behavioral problems and mental illness; some who have reached adolescence display aggressive and inappropriate sexual behaviors. Many of their biological parents are or were mentally ill, drug-addicted, and HIV-infected. Familial predisposition, together with intrauterine drug exposure and life’s emotionally traumatic experiences, may account for the high rates of mental illness in HIV-infected children