Child developmental issues

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  How HIV harms young brains

  HIV paediatrician Anton Tan and clinical psychologist Diane Melvin write about the challenges to development and maturity that HIV imposes on children. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Growing pains

  Why ageing with HIV isn’t just a concern for the over 50s, by Edwin J Bernard. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

Child developmental issues news from aidsmap

• Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-positive infants aids growth, reduces anaemia

  Use of daily cotrimoxazole in untreated HIV-infected infants significantly improved growth and reduced anaemia, Andrew Prendergast and colleagues reported in new findings from an observational analysis of the children enrolled in the Children with Antibiotic Prophylaxis (CHAP) trial published in ...

  11 April 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Watch for malnutrition risk in children with HIV after starting ART

  One in nine HIV-infected children with advanced illness was hospitalised with severe malnutrition within 12 weeks of starting antiretroviral and these children had a 15-fold increased risk of dying within the first six months compared to those children not hospitalised, ...

  29 March 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Adverse effects of ART use in pregnancy: prematurity continues to raise concerns

  Premature births in HIV-positive women continue to be a concern, and need to anticipated and managed actively in developing countries, researchers said last week at the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston. Conflicting findings persist over the use ...

  10 March 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Anaemia more likely in infants exposed to maternal ARVs during pregnancy and breastfeeding

  HIV-uninfected infants born to mothers in Botswana and exposed during pregnancy to maternal antiretroviral treatment were at increased risk for severe anaemia during the first six months of life compared to infants exposed to short-term zidovudine alone, Scott Dryden-Peterson and ...

  25 February 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Lung disease common in adolescents with HIV in Zimbabwe

  Healthcare workers treating older children and adolescents with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa should be alert for early symptoms of chronic lung disease in their patients, and do their best to identify and treat HIV infection before it has a significant ...

  13 November 2010 | Keith Alcorn

• Adolescents living with HIV face complex psychosocial concerns: require targeted, comprehensive services

  As the number of young people living with HIV increases internationally, new and innovative ways to talk about sex, disclosure, and health need to be developed for HIV-positive adolescents. According to a panel presenting at the Eighteenth International AIDS ...

  20 July 2010 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• Child development affected by late treatment start in resource-limited settings

  Children infected with HIV in resource-poor settings are at a significant risk for developmental impairment – affecting neurocognitive functions as well as growth – in spite of increased access to antiretroviral treatment, researchers reported at the Eighteenth International Conference on ...

  20 July 2010 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• 'Encouraging' long-term outcomes for French children infected with HIV at birth

  The outcomes for children who were infected with HIV at birth before 1993 in France are “encouraging”, investigators report in the July 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Sixty percent were still alive by 2009, and ...

  29 June 2010 | Michael Carter

• Nutritional supplementation has only modest benefits for patients with HIV

  Two studies have cast doubt on the value of nutritional supplements for patients with HIV. The first study, published in the July 1st edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases showed that the provision of nutritional support has ...

  09 June 2010 | Michael Carter

• South African study shows good ART outcomes for children in primary health clinic

  Over 80% of children who began antiretroviral treatment remained in care with 90% of those still in care showing complete viral suppression after two years in a primary health care setting in a very poor township ...

  11 August 2009 | Carole Leach-Lemens

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Child developmental issues news selected from other sources

• Psych Signs Common in Kids With HIV

  In a snapshot study of children and adolescents with HIV, about a third met criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder, researchers reported.

  06 February 2012 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

• NIH study shows HIV-exposed children at high risk of language delay

  Children exposed to HIV before birth are at risk for language impairments, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. Moreover, children exposed to HIV before birth may benefit from routine screening for language impairment, even if they don’t have any obvious signs of a language problem, the researchers said.

  09 January 2012 | US National Institutes of Health

• Romania: Adolescents With HIV Have More Neurocognitive Disorders

  Researchers in Romania have found a high rate of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders in a cohort of young adults who acquired HIV infections parenterally during childhood.

  18 October 2011 | Medscape (requires registration)

• Study suggests why HIV-uninfected babies of mothers with HIV might be more prone to infections

  Babies whose mothers have HIV, but who are not HIV-infected themselves, are born with lower levels of specific proteins in their blood called antibodies, which fight infection, compared with babies not exposed to HIV, a new study has found.

  08 February 2011 | Eurekalert

• SOUTH AFRICA: The difference AIDS makes to vulnerable children

  New South African research shows that AIDS-affected children struggle with educational and mental health issues more than their peers, who are vulnerable for other reasons.

  05 November 2010 | IRIN Plus News

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