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AIDS was reported in the pediatric population for the first time in 1982 in the USA by pediatricians who hardly managed to convince those responsible for childcare, because it can also occur in this population segment. Thanks to efforts for disease recognition in the pediatric population, scientists have been able to provide support and children infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) receive the same treatment protocol as adults. Early detection of HIV infection in pregnant women leads to the possibility for starting a treatment to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. The ELISA test has a high sensitivity and is indicated for HIV screening and Western Blot test has highly specificity and confirming the HIV infection.

HIV pediatric pathology is currently facing a large number of specialists such as neonatologists, pediatricians, family physicians, oncologists, otorhinolaryngologists, pharmacists, pediatric infectious disease, etc. The involvement of epidemiologists, nurses, social workers, sociologists, support groups together not by politicians is imperative, essential for the diagnosis, management and prevention of HIV infection require focusing on mothers of children and families within dysfunctions social and poverty. Social problems that a child infected with HIV face are almost always overwhelming: drug abuse, discrimination against minority people living with HIV, poverty, poor access to adequate medical services, family breaking when the HIV status of a family member is learned by and other domestic violence, are important to consider. Countries like Romania must learn what is good and what is bad about the AIDS epidemic in the US and Western Europe not to repeat their mistakes and at the same time to rediscover principles generally available today.

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Acute respiratory failure represents a syndrome with a persistent high rate of mortality and morbidity among the pediatric population. Therefore, a rapid therapeutic intervention is of paramount importance. The frequent etiology in children is the occlusion of upper respiratory airways as a result of bronchospasm, foreign body or tumor. We present a case of a child with a sinusochoanal polyp of impressive dimensions which produced a symptomatology with acute onset. Sinusochoanal polyp are benign tumors which originate from paranasal sinuses with a frequency of 4-6% among nasal polyps, are solitary and occur especially in males. The case intrigues through its atypical debut and symptomatology, given the dimensions of the polyp.