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Stephen W. Nicholas, MD and Elaine J. Abrams, MD

The authors are with the Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. Dr Nicholas is also with the Department of Pediatrics and Dr Abrams is with the Family Care Clinic, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Stephen W. Nicholas, MD, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Lenox Ave, Room 17-105, New York, NY 10037 (e-mail: swn2@columbia.edu).

	Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	INTRODUCTION

 

Since many children afflicted with AIDS are poor, it is our responsibility to ensure that they receive the medical and social care they need to live humane and civilized lives. It is our moral obligation to do so.¹

Margaret C. Heagarty, MD
Director of Pediatrics, Harlem Hospital Center,
1978–1999

Those who were involved in public health in the mid-1980s will remember New York City's "boarder babies with AIDS." These were children with HIV who lived unnecessarily in hospitals, boarding, as it were, because they had nowhere to go. They had been abandoned, orphaned, or removed from their parents' care because . . . [Full Text]

	A CHALLENGE FOR TRADITIONAL APPROACHES

 

	OUT OF THE IVORY TOWER, INTO THE COMMUNITY

 

	NEW YORK's ONLY RESIDENCE FOR CHILDREN WITH HIV

 

	AN IRONIC TWIST TO THE STORY

 

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