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  The geographical transition from paediatrics to adult care was minimal. In fact leaving the sixth floor of St Mary’s to go to their ground floor 900 Clinic...

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• 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

• 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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• The Price of Ignoring the Sexuality of Kenya's HIV Positive Youth

  “The problem is in the transition into adolescence and teenage years. You are dealing with young people who are at an age where they don’t communicate well. The needs of HIV positive teenagers are real and they are ignored just the same way the sexual and reproductive health needs of teens in general are ignored,” an activist said.

  03 December 2012 | Inter Press Service

• USA: 20 percent of youth with HIV didn’t know they were infected at first sexual experience

  Roughly 20 percent of youth who have had HIV since birth did not know their HIV status when they first became sexually active, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health-supported research network.

  10 November 2012 | NIH News

• Kenya: Support Disclosure of HIV Status to Children

  Children have the right to age-appropriate information about their HIV status and should not be the last to find out that they are HIV-positive, Human Rights Watch said on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010.

  25 October 2012 | Human Rights Watch HIV/TB

• School rejects HIV boy's siblings

  A primary school asked the parents of a four-year-old Whangarei boy with HIV to keep his two older siblings at home for their own safety after other parents came forward with concerns.

  15 May 2012 | New Zealand Herald

• New Zealand: Parents deny discriminating over HIV boy

  Angry parents are sticking up for the Northland childhood centre which kicked out a four-year-old boy for being HIV-positive. The Aids Foundation has labelled the Mokopuna Early Childhood Education centre close-minded, irresponsible and guilty of wilful ignorance.

  10 May 2012 | TVNZ

• New Zealand: Boy with HIV expelled from childcare

  A young boy has been expelled from a Whangarei childcare centre because he has HIV, the New Zealand Aids Foundation says. The move by the childcare centre has created hysteria in the community, the New Zealand Aids Foundation says.

  09 May 2012 | Stuff.co.nz

• Teenagers born with HIV tell of life under society's radar

  HIV-positive youngsters who were infected before or at birth reveal their secret lives.

  12 March 2012 | The Guardian

• Sexual and Reproductive Health for young HIV positive adolescents

  This manual gives guidance and direction to healthcare workers who recognise that sexual and reproductive health is a critical component of adolescent service provision.

  23 August 2011 | Anova Health Institute

• More families are adopting HIV-positive children

  While most adoptions present challenges, there's a distinctive set of them facing parents who decide to adopt children living with HIV. A twice-daily medication regimen, lingering prejudice and fear, uncertainty about the child's longevity and marriage prospects.

  03 April 2011 | The Seattle Times

• South Africa: Early Disclosure to Children Could Be Best

  Disclosing your child's HIV status to them can be a difficult thing to do for a caregiver, but it's probably the best thing you would have done for them. According to the Wits Institute for Health HIV and Related Diseases, disclosure has incredible benefits.

  15 February 2011 | AllAfrica

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