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  South Africa is moving towards an AIDS-free generation, and improving survival in children living with HIV

  Reductions in vertical HIV transmission to infants and improvement in paediatric survival attributable to the scale of and quality improvement of prevention of parent-to-child transmission (PPTCT) and antiretroviral...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Don’t forget SP: testing untested children

  ‘SP’ (not his real initials) was a ten-year-old boy who died of AIDS in a north London hospital in 2008. He was finally tested for HIV, and...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Happy families

  Sally Farthing is an HIV specialist midwife at West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, west London. She praises the measures – and the mothers – who together have sent...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Early infant HIV diagnosis

  This issue provides an overview of early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV infection in resource-limited settings. ...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Audit of high infant mortality in Durban hospitals illustrates delivery gap remaining for PMTCT and paediatric ART programmes

  Review of ways in which perinatal and child care may currently fail to identify HIV-infected infants, and what needs to be done to improve linkage...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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• South Africa's PMTCT programme reduces mother-to-child transmission to under 4%

  Nine years after the start of a national prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme, South Africa’s mother-to-child HIV  transmission (MTCT) rate is under 4% at four to eight weeks after birth, according to South Africa’s first national PMTCT impact evaluation. ...

  19 July 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Breastfeeding infants with HIV may develop drug resistance from ARVs in breast milk

  Two thirds of breastfeeding infants infected after birth, born to mothers on antiretroviral therapy (ART), developed resistance to one or more antiretroviral drugs according to Clement Zeh and colleagues in a secondary analysis of the Kisumu Breastfeeding Study (KiBS) published ...

  31 March 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Without improved infant HIV diagnosis, early treatment recommendation may have limited impact

  Early infant HIV diagnosis (EID) is becoming more frequent, according to a retrospective multi-country analysis in Cambodia, Namibia, Senegal and Uganda in 2009, researchers announced today at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna. The 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines recommend all ...

  20 July 2010 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Testing children in UK: progress made, but more work needed for older children and those living abroad

  Efforts to improve the detection of HIV infection in children born to HIV-positive patients were reported in a series of posters at the joint conference of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the British Association of ...

  27 April 2010 | Roger Pebody

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• TANZANIA: New centres to boost paediatric HIV care

  Just 15 percent of all prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission facilities in Tanzania are able to conduct early infant diagnosis; poorly trained health workers and inadequate infrastructure mean general hospitals are ill-equipped to handle routine identification, testing and treatment of HIV-infected children.

  15 March 2011 | IRIN Plus News

• South Africa: Students Keen to Know Their Status

  Students have shown a willingness to get tested for HIV and say that it is important for everyone to know their status so that if need be, people can start treatment earlier. This follows the launch of the 'First things first' HIV Counselling and Testing Campaign targeting first year tertiary level students around the country.

  21 February 2011 | AllAfrica

• South Africa: HIV-positive youth find it hard to cope with loss

  HIV-POSITIVE youth often find it hard to cope with their condition if they have lost close family due to the infection.

  11 February 2011 | Sowetan

• India: HIV test for babies to start early

  HIV testing of infants will now take place one month after birth rather than four months, the National AIDS Control Organization has announced.

  09 February 2011 | Times of India

• South Africa: 'HIV testing at schools not for state data'

  The Department of Health has stressed that the proposal to test school children for HIV is not aimed at meeting government targets.

  03 February 2011 | Sowetan

• India: New method found effective in diagnosing HIV in children

  A new method, using filter paper, allows high-end polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to be performed equally effectively on small spots of dried blood rather than a whole blood sample with equal amount of sensitivity and specificity. 

  28 January 2011 | Times of India

• Major Commitment Made to Dramatically Accelerate the Elimination of Pediatric HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe

  The Government of Zimbabwe’s national program to eliminate pediatric HIV/AIDS has received a significant boost with an award by the London-based Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF).

  21 January 2011 | Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

• Firm develops early HIV diagnosis system for Kenyan infants

  Strathmore University and Hewlett Packard have developed a custom database application that uses cloud computing to capture, manage and return infant HIV test results in one to two days, a significant improvement from the previous paper-based system that took over one month.

  16 December 2010 | Business Daily Africa

• HIV in children stats fudged, claims NGO

  More than 3,000 HIV-infected children including scores in Kolkata could be going untreated and uncared for in West Bengal, risking transmission of the deadly virus, with the state health authorities not even being aware of their existence. 

  09 December 2010 | The Times of India

• New York Announces Updated Infant HIV Diagnosing Guidelines

  All HIV-exposed infants born in New York State should be tested for HIV within 48 hours of birth using a more sensitive procedure to test for HIV, called qualitative RNA nucleic acid testing.

  08 December 2010 | The AIDS Beacon

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