[Minutes, Advisory Committee to the Director GP-160 Meeting (1992: Bethesda, Maryland)]

1 pediatrics. And that's because children are a
2 captured population. Children come. The mothers
3 bring their children to get their immunizations.
4 In fact, adolescents, while they remain
5 under the umbrella of the school system in this
6 country, are a capturable population. Once
7 adolescents leave school, it's very difficult to bring
8 them in for an immunization program, especially when
9 it's a program that requires two, three, four, five
10 immunizations.
11 So I would suggest to you that we at least
12 think, remind ourselves about what history has taught
13 us in terms of immunizations in general.
14 And then with regards to the vaccine
15 program for pediatric AIDS, we really have two goals
16 within pediatrics. Pediatrics offers a unique
17 opportunity to address both of these goals.
18 The first is the one that we paid
19 attention to this afternoon, and that's to utilize HIV
20 vaccines as post-infection therapy for seropositive or
21 infected children.
22 Now, why are these children unique in
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