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Malawi: Routine test offer at immunisation clinics improves early infant HIV diagnosis

Integration of testing for early infant diagnosis was acceptable and feasible at a government immunisation clinic (IC); the proportion of infants who received provider-initiated testing and counselling

Published
13 July 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Second Edition of UNITAID Diagnostic Technology Landscape Report Published

The second edition of the UNITAID Diagnostic Technology Landscape is now available online. First published in June 2011, the report has proven a critical tool for those interested in understanding the pipeline for HIV point-of-care diagnostics, including global health institutions, health care providers, investors, and developers. The 2012 edition represents UNITAID’s continued effort to map the landscape of existing and pipeline products and provides updated information on progress in the development of these important technologies.

Published
26 June 2012
From
UNITAID
Diagnosing children
Instant Infant HIV Diagnosis to be Rolled Out in Rural Kenya

Jesse Mtembe, a nursing officer at the Akithenesit Health Centre in Teso North, in Kenya's Western Province, cannot wait for his centre to be connected to a new software system for diagnosing HIV in infants that is being developed in the country's leading private university.

Published
13 June 2012
From
Inter Press Service
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
UNAIDS launches "Believe it. Do it." action campaign to help end new HIV infections among children by 2015

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today launched a new campaign, "Believe it. Do it.", aimed at bringing attention and action to the global goal of ending new HIV infections among children by 2015 and ensuring mothers living with HIV remain healthy.

Published
09 May 2012
From
UNAIDS
Diagnosing children
Instant Infant HIV Diagnosis to be Rolled Out in Rural Kenya

Jesse Mtembe, a nursing officer at the Akithenesit Health Centre in Teso North, in Kenya's Western Province, cannot wait for his centre to be connected to a new software system for diagnosing HIV in infants that is being developed in the country's leading private university.

Published
19 March 2012
From
Inter Press Service
Diagnosing children
Early infant diagnosis for HIV: is it taking place early enough?

Current early infant diagnosis (EID) protocols may need to be revised in the light of current WHO guidelines on the prevention and treatment of HIV-infection in low-resourced

Published
13 March 2012
By
Theo Smart
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
South Africa's PMTCT programme reduces mother-to-child transmission to under 4%

Nine years after the start of a national prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme, South Africa’s mother-to-child HIV  transmission (MTCT) rate is under 4% at four to eight

Published
19 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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

Published
22 June 2011
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Breastfeeding infants with HIV may develop drug resistance from ARVs in breast milk

Two thirds of breastfeeding infants infected after birth, born to mothers on antiretroviral therapy (ART), developed resistance to one or more antiretroviral drugs according to Clement Zeh and

Published
31 March 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
HIV treatment in children
TANZANIA: New centres to boost paediatric HIV care

Just 15 percent of all prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission facilities in Tanzania are able to conduct early infant diagnosis; poorly trained health workers and inadequate infrastructure mean general hospitals are ill-equipped to handle routine identification, testing and treatment of HIV-infected children.

Published
15 March 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
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