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A ritonavir-boosted lopinavir (LPV/r)-based
regimen achieved a comparable rate of virologic suppression when compared to a non-nucleoside
reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based regimen in HIV-infected Ugandan
children at 48 weeks, with comparable immunological responses and adverse
events, researchers reported at the ...
14 March 2013 | Carole Leach-Lemens
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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
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Children did just as well on antiretroviral therapy without
routine laboratory monitoring of CD4 cell counts or drug side-effects as those who received regular monitoring during
four years of follow-up, researchers
from Uganda and Zimbabwe reported on 5 March ...
05 March 2013 | Keith Alcorn
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Researchers in the United States say that they have
identified a case of a 'functional' HIV cure in a child infected with HIV who
began antiretroviral treatment within days of birth. The child has now been off
treatment for ...
03 March 2013 | Keith Alcorn
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Barely
half of all children having started antiretroviral treatment (ART) at under one
year of age were still in care two years later, according to the largest single
programme multi-country retrospective analysis of children on ART in Kenya,
Mozambique, Rwanda ...
21 December 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens
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Nutritional
support, early infant diagnosis (EID), linkages with associations of people
living with HIV and on-site prevention of mother-to-child transmission
(PMTCT) services were associated with favourable paediatric enrolment and a
high proportion of children under two years of age on ...
05 October 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens
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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
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Clinicians
in low- and middle-income countries should give greater consideration to the
possibility that infants and children with HIV are presenting with symptoms of
cryptococcal disease, according to a report from South Africa published in the advance
online edition of ...
17 September 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens
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Complications
of HIV infection among adolescents in resource-poor settings
include malnutrition, chronic lung disease and tuberculosis as well as the
long-term side effects of drugs - including
lipodystrophy, peripheral neuropathy and high blood cholesterol
(dislypidemia) – Dr. Phillipa Musoke
told participants at ...
09 August 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens
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“It is unacceptable that
children at this point in time are not receiving treatment,” René Ekpini
of UNICEF told a satellite session supported by UNICEF,
IAS-ILF and MSH last Sunday at the 19th International AIDS
Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington ...
27 July 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens
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