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

• 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

• Daily cotrimoxazole better than three times weekly for infants with HIV

  Use of co-trimoxazole preventive therapy (CPT) three times a week compared to daily use in  infants was linked to more severe bacterial infections and longer hospital stays, while survival rates were similar, researchers from South Africa reported in the ...

  10 September 2010 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Treat all under-twos with HIV immediately, says WHO

  All infants and children with HIV below two years of age should receive antiretroviral treatment regardless of their CD4 count or disease stage, and treatment should start earlier than previously recommended for all other children with ...

  16 June 2010 | Keith Alcorn

• Low maternal vitamin D increases risk of HIV transmission to child and infant mortality

  Low maternal vitamin D is associated with an increased risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission and child mortality, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. “An increased risk of being HIV infected ...

  14 August 2009 | Michael Carter

• HIV subtype affects risk of brain impairment in HIV-positive children

  HIV subtype A is associated with poorer neuropsychological performance than subtype D in children, investigators from Uganda report in the online edition of AIDS. Children infected with subtype A had significantly poorer memory, learning and visual-spatial ...

  14 April 2010 | Michael Carter

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HIV in children news selected from other sources

• 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

• Battling HIV prejudice with Body & Soul

  

  An estimated 100,000 people are living with Aids and HIV in Britain, many of them young people who face prejudice on a daily basis. But a series of celebrity portraits by Rankin and a powerful new film, Life in My Shoes, are challenging that stigma.

  19 November 2011 | The Guardian

• Out of the Dark: An implementers’ guide to managing TB in children

  This report will outline the current state of paediatric TB care, looking at current practices, new developments and research needs – in paediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

  28 October 2011 | MSF

• Gates-Backed Fund to Buy $1 Billion of Glaxo, Pfizer Shots

  A fund backed by Bill Gates will buy more than $1 billion of vaccines from Glaxo SmithKline, Pfizer and Merck & Co. to prevent children from dying in 37 of the poorest nations.

  27 September 2011 | Bloomberg

• KENYA: Stepping up paediatric TB diagnosis

  "It is extremely difficult to diagnose tuberculosis in children, unlike in adults, and the low knowledge among many health workers of the symptoms of the disease in children means many children die," said Joseph Sitienei, head of the National Leprosy and TB Control Programme. "Even among children where it is detected, it is done late, meaning they are enrolled late on treatment."

  24 March 2011 | IRIN Plus News

• Andhra Pradesh negative towards HIV+ kids

  According to the Central government, more children are thrown out of schools in Andhra Pradesh for their HIV/AIDS status than in any other state in India. 

  20 March 2011 | Deccan Chronicle

• U.S. Kids Born With HIV Are Doing Fairly Well as Teens

  A recent study has found that most HIV-positive adolescents originally infected at or near birth in the United States have undetectable viral loads and fairly good immune health. Children born around the time that combination therapy became the norm in the late 1990s are doing better than kids born when therapy was limited to one or two of the older antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.

  17 March 2011 | AIDSMeds

• 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

• Outdated blood testing contributes to HIV

  Hundreds of thalassemic children get infected with HIV-AIDS every year during crucial blood transfusions as most blood banks, including the Indian Red Cross, are not equipped with an advanced blood testing facility that can detect the virus accurately and in a short time, say experts.

  07 January 2011 | Times of India

• HIV-positive children live in the shadows

  Sitting next to her 9-year-old sister, Hana, Nina calmly munched her lunch of fried chicken rolls and rice. Nina, 5, looks like any other little girl — but she has been through a lot. She is HIV positive.

  14 December 2010 | Jakarta Post

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