Child developmental issues

Child developmental issues features

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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

• Adverse birth outcomes more frequent in women exposed to ART during pregnancy, largest-ever study confirms

  Among HIV-infected women in Botswana, starting combination antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for adverse birth outcomes, including pre-term delivery, small for gestational age, stillbirth and neonatal death, researchers report in the largest study of birth ...

  30 October 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Tenofovir use during pregnancy doesn't affect infant size or weight at birth, but may by one year of age

  Use of tenofovir during pregnancy does not have an adverse impact on infant weight or size at birth, according to a large US study published in the online edition of AIDS. The study involved the HIV-negative infants of HIV-positive ...

  03 April 2012 | Michael Carter

• 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

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• HIV Drug Not Tied to Premature Births

  Pregnant HIV-infected women treated with a lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra)-based antiretroviral regimen are at no greater risk of delivering a preterm baby than similar pregnant women given an efavirenz (Sustiva)-based treatment, researchers said here.

  10 March 2013 | MedPage Today

• Texas: Food availability linked with poor outcomes for HIV-positive children

  An HIV-positive child whose family does not have enough good food available is more likely to have a poor clinical outcome, researchers reported. They found that children who did not always have enough to eat had lower CD4 counts as well as higher chances of incomplete viral suppression.

  12 February 2013 | Baylor College of Medicine press release

• Bone mineral density below normal in children infected early with HIV

  Bone mineral density was below the general population norm in US children perinatally infected with HIV and lower than in children perinatally exposed to HIV but uninfected.

  21 January 2013 | International AIDS Society

• Children exposed to HIV in the womb at increased risk for hearing loss

  Children exposed to HIV in the womb may be more likely to experience hearing loss by age 16 than are their unexposed peers, according to scientists in a National Institutes of Health research network.

  21 June 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

• Anti-HIV drug use during pregnancy does not affect infant size, birth weight

  Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of shorter length than infants born to women who used anti-HIV drug regimens that do not include tenofovir during pregnancy, according to findings from a National Institutes of Health network study.

  02 May 2012 | National Institutes of Health (press release)

• Time HIV Tx Starts Has No Impact on IQ

  Neurological development of children infected with HIV does not appear to be influenced by the decision on when to start antiretroviral therapy, researchers said here.

  08 March 2012 | MedPage Today

• NIH-funded study defines treatment window for HIV+ children infected at birth

  HIV-positive children older than 1 year who were treated after showing moderate HIV-related symptoms did not experience greater cognitive or behavior problems compared to peers treated when signs of their infection were still mild, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

  07 March 2012 | Eurekalert Inf Dis

• 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)

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