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Sung-Jae Lee, PhD

Sung-Jae Lee is with the Center for Community Health, University of California, Los Angeles.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sung-Jae Lee, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Community Health, 10920 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 350, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (e-mail:sjlee@mednet.ucla.edu).

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I appreciate Varma’s letter and read it with great interest. My coauthors and I agree that social support has an important effect on the mental and behavioral outcomes of HIV-affected adolescents.

Our study did not restate what is already known on the significance of social support for HIV-affected adolescents, a unique group with multiple challenges and stressors (e.g., stigma, unstable housing, parental drug use, parental death resulting from AIDS). Empirical investigations of the relationship between social support and mental and behavioral outcomes of HIV-affected adolescents are limited. My coauthors and I acknowledged in our study that the data we used . . . [Full Text]