Editorial

support for children infected with HIV • Heloísa Helena de Sousa Marques The nutritional deficiencies from infection by HIV are frequently more serious in children than in adults, due to children’s need to demand additional nutrients for their growth and development. The com-promising of nutrition is related to the increase in the number of episodes of infectious complaints and also contributes to a slower recovery from these. In the United States in 1994, the so-called “wasting ” syn-drome, a serious condition of denutrition accompa-nied by weight loss, diarrhea and/or fever, affected 17% of children infected by HIV.1 Around 40 % of the 300 children infected by HIV and admitted into th