HIV in children

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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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  JD and Max tell their stories

  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...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Coming of age

  Soon, the majority of children in the UK born with HIV will be young adults. Many already are. Gus Cairns talks to healthcare workers about helping...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Diarrhoea in children with HIV: a clinical review

  Diarrhoea is one of the major causes of death in infants with HIV. This article reviews causes and management in low-resource settings....

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Childhood TB (part 3): treatment and prevention

  This is the third part of Childhood TB covering treatment and prevention including antiretroviral treatment for children co-infected. ...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Childhood TB (part 2): presentation and diagnosis

  Review of the symptoms and diagnosis of TB in children, with particular reference to HIV. ...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Childhood TB, part 1

  This is the first part of a series of three issues on Childhood TB and provides general overview of the epidemic in children and its...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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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

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  Don’t forget the children

  by Edwin J Bernard...

  From:  HIV treatment update

HIV in children news from aidsmap

• Continuing cotrimoxazole in children on ART reduces the risk of hospitalisation

  Children on ART for more than two years who continued taking daily cotrimoxazole had significantly fewer hospitalisations for malaria as well as for non-malarial infections (notably pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis), compared to children who stopped this treatment, researchers from Uganda ...

  06 March 2013 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• False-negative confirmatory HIV tests in children are frequent after starting ART

  False-negative rapid antibody tests, in the absence of virologic testing at the age of 18 months, in children receiving antiretroviral treatment can result in interruption of treatment, and false-negative results occur with high frequency, according to the results of a ...

  19 September 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Early antiretroviral therapy improves neurodevelopment in HIV-positive infants

  Starting antiretroviral therapy soon after birth improves neurodevelopment in HIV-positive infants, South African investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The development observed in children who started treatment early was in most respects similar to that seen ...

  11 July 2012 | Michael Carter

• Booster dose of measles vaccine achieves high levels of protection for children taking effective HIV treatment

  A booster dose of the measles vaccine produces protective antibody responses and immunologic memory in children receiving HIV therapy, US investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.  A viral load below 400 copies/ml ...

  21 June 2012 | Michael Carter

• HIV prevalence beginning to fall in South African children

  HIV prevalence fell sharply among children admitted to one of South Africa’s largest hospitals in 2009 and 2010, but remained high at 19.3%, researchers from Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) hospital in Soweto report in the advance online edition ...

  29 May 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Lopinavir/ritonavir cuts malaria risk in children with HIV

  HIV-infected children in Tororo, Uganda, an area of high malaria transmission, on a lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r, or Kaletra)-based antiretroviral (ART) regimen had a significantly lower risk of getting malaria, compared to those on a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase (NNRTI)-based regimen, researchers reported ...

  07 March 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Urgent need for guidance on management of heart disease risk in HIV-positive children

  The majority of HIV-positive children who develop high cholesterol still have elevated cholesterol two years later, US investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Only a quarter of children with elevated cholesterol ...

  12 July 2011 | Michael Carter

• Young adults who were infected at birth: the complexities of lifelong HIV are increasingly apparent

  Although 85% of young adults who take antiretroviral therapy have an undetectable viral load, the complexities and complications of lifelong HIV infection are becoming increasingly apparent, researchers told the British HIV Association conference in Bournemouth last week. Rates of hospital admissions, ...

  11 April 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Vigilance needed over MDR-TB in children, South African doctors warn

  South African doctors have found a high prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis among children receiving care in a Johannesburg hospital, highlighting the need to screen for drug resistance and test for HIV in children with TB symptoms. Among a cohort of children ...

  04 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

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HIV in children news selected from other sources

• Maternal abacavir, smoking tied to heart markers in HIV-exposed kids

  HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU) children of HIV-positive mothers who took abacavir, smoked, or drank alcohol had elevated levels of cardiac biomarkers that could signal heart trouble, according to analysis of the US Pediatric HIVAIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). The study also linked cardiac biomarkers to some echocardiographic abnormalities.

  07 May 2013 | International AIDS Society

• Anti-HIV therapy appears to protect children's hearts, NIH network study shows

  For children who have had HIV-1 infection since birth, the combination drug therapies now used to treat HIV appear to protect against the heart damage seen before combination therapies were available, according to researchers.

  23 April 2013 | National Institutes of Health (press release)

• UNITAID and TB Alliance call for more action against childhood tuberculosis

  In spite of an estimated 500,000 new annual cases of children with tuberculosis (TB), there are no appropriate medicines for them, UNITAID and the TB Alliance warn.

  20 March 2013 | UNITAID

• Achieving an AIDS-free generation: Don't forget children living with HIV

  Since 2005, the number of children living with HIV receiving lifesaving treatment has quadrupled. But still, only 28 percent of the nearly two million children in need of lifelong HIV treatment are getting it.

  10 December 2012 | The Hill

• Atherosclerosis Found in HIV Children

  Children with HIV have a 2.5 fold increased risk of atherosclerosis, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging Modalities 2012.

  06 December 2012 | Science Daily (press release)

• Children with TB – Global interest at last

  At last, tackling tuberculosis (TB) in children is on the international agenda. This year, for the first time, an estimate of the extent of TB in children was included in the Global Tuberculosis Report.

  28 November 2012 | PLoS Blogs (blog)

• 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

• SOUTH AFRICA: Children with TB below the health radar

  To a casual observer the two dozen children running round in the grassy schoolyard look like ordinary kids playing, but the surrounding buildings are the wards of the Brooklyn Chest Hospital (BCH), which specializes in treating severe cases of tuberculosis (TB), a disease rarely associated with children.

  23 March 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• 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

• There's no cure. So no point in taking medicines, teacher tell HIV+ve kid

  The report shows that even a metropolis like Bangalore is not free of this institutionalised bias against HIV-positive children, and has found schoolteachers to be either “insensitive or lacking awareness” about the disease.

  21 November 2011 | Bangalore Mirror

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