Many of the analysed characteristics in these women were more related with the consumption of injected drug than with the HIV infection, such as the greater frequency of elective abortions, criminal antecedents, parental abandonment, multiple drug abuse and pathological precedents like hepatitis B or C.
Infected children and non-infected children had similar social and family characteristics. However, less schooling, problems of school integration, and more and longer hospital admissions were related to HIV infection in children, and not so much to their status as children of seropositive mothers.
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