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HIV treatment in children
Lack of treatment of South Africa's infants with HIV

The poor provision of treatment to infants is mainly due to two obstacles: the confusion of health-care workers about the national HIV-treatment guidelines and the reluctance of mothers to have their children tested for HIV.

Published
12 November 2010
From
The Lancet (editorial)
Diagnosing children
Uganda: Mobile Technology Doubles HIV Treatment Rate in Babies

HIV-infected babies have had their diagnosis time cut from three months to two weeks thanks to a mobile phone-based technology.

Published
02 November 2010
From
AllAfrica
Diagnosing children
KENYA: Home HIV testing helps early diagnosis of high-risk children

Home-based voluntary counselling and testing can help to diagnose HIV early among high-risk children, new research in western Kenya has found.

Published
19 October 2010
From
IRIN Plus News
Diagnosing children
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

Published
01 October 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Testing policies and guidelines
South Africa: Mass Testing of Learners Opposed

Children's rights organisations and other civil society groups have urged the Health Department to stop its plans to go to schools to test learners for HIV.

Published
22 September 2010
From
AllAfrica
Diagnosing children
Without improved infant HIV diagnosis, early treatment recommendation may have limited impact

Early infant HIV diagnosis (EID) is becoming more frequent, according to a retrospective multi-country analysis in Cambodia, Namibia, Senegal and Uganda in 2009, researchers announced today at the Eighteenth

Published
20 July 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Happy families

Sally Farthing is an HIV specialist midwife at West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, west London. She praises the measures – and the mothers – who together have sent

Published
01 July 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Diagnosing children
Testing children in UK: progress made, but more work needed for older children and those living abroad

Efforts to improve the detection of HIV infection in children born to HIV-positive patients were reported in a series of posters at the joint conference

Published
27 April 2010
By
Roger Pebody
Diagnosing children
Early infant HIV diagnosis

This issue provides an overview of early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV infection in resource-limited settings.

Published
31 January 2008
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Families and children
Audit of high infant mortality in Durban hospitals illustrates delivery gap remaining for PMTCT and paediatric ART programmes

Review of ways in which perinatal and child care may currently fail to identify HIV-infected infants, and what needs to be done to improve linkage

Published
12 June 2007
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
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