Tremendous progress has been made over the past three decades in the fight against the HIV epidemic; however, children experienced substantial physical and psychosocial effects of HIV infection. To inform services and policy development, we analyzed research growth and current trends in studies on children with HIV/AIDS. A total of 17,598 research papers and reviews in English, which were published on Web of Science, were downloaded. VOSviewer was used to generate an author keyword cooccurrence network and a network illustrating the connection among countries by shared coauthorships. Exploratory factor analysis was employed to identify research domains emerging from the abstracts' contents. The number of papers and their impacts had grown significantly in the past decade. The majority of study settings were in African countries. Research topics related to HIV in children were robust in areas of prevention of mother-to-child transmission and HIV and comorbidities treatments. Although psychosocial and behavioral disorders were recognized in previous studies, the number of interventions in these fields is still limited or not sustained. This study presents the global research trends and interests, points out research gaps of available publications and suggests several implications for services and intervention programs for children infected with HIV/AIDS. While preventions of mother-to-child transmission have been extensively studied, more efforts should be made to fulfill the lack of research on young people who are at risk of being infected or who are already infected with HIV. System thinking approach is needed in the design and implementation of future studies.

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对受艾滋病毒/艾滋病影响的儿童的服务的全球文献计量分析：对减轻影响计划的影响（GAPRESEARCH）。

过去三十年来，在防治艾滋病毒流行方面取得了巨大进展；但是，儿童遭受了艾滋病毒感染的大量生理和心理影响。为了为服务和政策制定提供信息，我们分析了有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病儿童的研究增长和当前趋势。在Web of Science上总共下载了17,598篇英文研究论文和评论。VOSviewer用于生成作者关键字共现网络，该网络通过共享的共同作者关系说明国家之间的联系。探索性因素分析被用来识别摘要内容中出现的研究领域。在过去的十年中，论文的数量及其影响显着增加。大多数研究环境是在非洲国家。在预防母婴传播以及艾滋病毒和合并症的治疗方面，与儿童艾滋病毒有关的研究主题很活跃。尽管在先前的研究中已经认识到社会心理和行为障碍，但是在这些领域的干预措施数量仍然有限或无法持续。这项研究提出了全球研究趋势和兴趣，指出了现有出版物的研究差距，并提出了对感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的儿童的服务和干预计划的若干启示。虽然对预防母婴传播的方法进行了广泛研究，但应作出更多努力，以弥补对有感染风险或已经感染艾滋病毒的年轻人的研究不足。在未来研究的设计和实施中需要系统思考方法。