Young people

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  Treatment in children and adolescents

  With South Africa’s current PPTCT guidelines, breastfeeding infants have a much better chance of staying HIV-negative too. Giving nevirapine to infants for the duration of breastfeeding...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  The beginning of change: the 2010 CHIVA summer camp

  Following on from our issue looking at young people, in October, guest writer Bakita Kasadha talks to the organisers and participants in the UK’s summer camp for teenagers...

  From:HIV treatment update

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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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  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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  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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  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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  Growing pains

  Why ageing with HIV isn’t just a concern for the over 50s, by Edwin J Bernard. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

Young people news from aidsmap

• Financial incentives and motivational interviewing being used to improve adherence in young people

  St Mary’s Hospital in London is testing the use of cash incentives, in combination with motivational interviewing, in an effort to improve the adherence of a small group of HIV-positive young people. The rationale and first ...

  20 April 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Study from Zambia highlights importance of comprehension and consent in male circumcision programmes

  A study from Zambia has found that the majority of adolescent boys attending male circumcision programmes have done so by choice and with their parents’ approval, although some said it had been primarily their parents’ idea. It found that, ...

  21 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Disappointing results from two peer education projects in southern Africa

  Two large HIV prevention programmes that recruited people to educate their friends and classmates have both failed to make an impact on sexual behaviour, researchers report in two separate articles published online ahead of print in AIDS and Behavior. A ...

  20 September 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Unprotected sex eight times more common in serious relationships than casual ones, US gay youth study finds

  The strongest single predictor of not using condoms in anal sex in a group of young US gay men was that the relationship was regarded as ‘serious’, a study has found. Unprotected sex was eight times more likely in ...

  26 August 2011 | Gus Cairns

• What's next for HIV prevention? Paying people to be healthy

  Researchers are investigating the impact of offering financial incentives to people who are at risk of acquiring or passing on HIV, the International AIDS Society conference (IAS 2011) in Rome heard last week. A large study in the United ...

  25 July 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Sexually transmitted infection rates in England drop for the first time in a decade - but continue to rise in gay men

  For the first time in a decade, there has been a small drop in the number of diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections in England. Screening programmes appear to be having an impact on the sexual health of young ...

  16 June 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Brain impairment in people with HIV may not be as common as we thought

  Two studies presented at the17th British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference last week suggest that the proportion of people who have subtle brain impairment due to HIV may not be as high as previously thought, and may in fact be ...

  11 April 2011 | Gus Cairns

• 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

• Young people's stories about condoms can help re-shape prevention messages

  The themes and preoccupations of stories submitted by young people in six African countries should be looked at to inform HIV prevention programmes, researchers write in the journal Social Science and Medicine. With rates of condom use being ...

  17 February 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Gardasil safe and effective in young men

  The Gardasil vaccine prevents infection and disease associated with high-risk strains of human papilloma virus (HPV) in males, an international team of investigators report in the February 3rd edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. Sexually experienced boys and ...

  07 February 2011 | Michael Carter

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Young people news selected from other sources

• Ghana - Peer pressure 'lures' HIV-infected youth to default use of anti- retroviral drugs

  For many HIV-positive adolescents, peer pressure and stigmatization are two major factors that discourage them from taking anti retroviral drugs regularly.

  23 May 2012 | Myjoyonline.com

• Teachers in Tennessee could be banned from talking about KISSING as state outlaws discussion of 'gateway sexual activity'

  Teachers caught discussing 'gateway' sexual behaviour with students could be fined $500

  14 May 2012 | Daily Mail

• HPV vaccine completion rate among girls is poor, getting worse

  (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) The proportion of insured girls and young women completing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among those who initiated the series has dropped significantly -- as much as 63 percent -- since the vaccine was approved in 2006, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston.

  05 May 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

• Young people present first-ever ‘crowdsourced’ recommendations for AIDS response in UN history

  Youth leaders from around the world today presented a set of youth-defined recommendations that will guide the UNAIDS Secretariat’s work on HIV and young people through 2015.

  25 April 2012 | UNAIDS

• Liberia: HIV/Aids Awareness Campaign Heightens

  The Program Manager of the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) has called on school authorities to establish health clubs through which the students can acquire knowledge about HIV/AIDS.

  16 April 2012 | AllAfrica

• Sex education stagnating in US schools, CDC says

  Public schools in the United States are making "little progress" in expanding instruction in how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, a new federal study concluded.

  10 April 2012 | Reuters

• Obama Establishes Working Group on HIV, Women and Girls

  President Barack Obama has established a working group on the intersection of HIV/AIDS, gender-related health disparities and violence against women and girls, according to a White House statement.

  03 April 2012 | Poz magazine news

• Thailand struggles to teach the basics of sex education to students

  Seemingly open culture contrasts with conservative approach to tackling STDs, unwanted pregnancies and HIV.

  21 March 2012 | The Guardian

• Utah Sex Education Bill To Teach Abstinence-Only Vetoed By Governor

  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Friday vetoed a controversial bill banning public schools from teaching contraception as a way of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

  19 March 2012 | Huffington Post

• 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

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