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Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Nine-study review raises no lopinavir efficacy or safety concerns in pregnancy

Systematic review of nine studies involving 2675 pregnant women found that standard-dose lopinavir/ritonavir controlled HIV replication and limited HIV transmission well, despite prior reports of low levels of the protease inhibitors in the third trimester

Published
17 January 2013
From
NATAP
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
HIV trial under scrutiny

A potential breakthrough in the quest to prevent HIV and AIDS has collided with sensitivities about testing expensive drugs in poor parts of the world.

Published
17 January 2013
From
Nature.com
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
HIV prevention: new pilots for beleaguered Swaziland

Swaziland, which has the world's highest incidence of HIV, is embarking on pilot projects to offer treatment to people who are HIV-positive, including pregnant women, irrespective of their CD4 count. Barbara Sibbald reports.

Published
11 January 2013
From
The Lancet
HIV treatment in children
Child death rates still high despite HIV treatment

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

Published
21 December 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
KENYA: Integration of PMTCT and maternal and child health gets results

Health programmes integrating services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV into regular maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) clinics, rather than operating PMTCT services as stand-along programmes, are showing positive results in Kenya, experts say.

Published
20 December 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Treatment with a protease inhibitor during the first trimester of pregnancy increases the risk of pre-term birth

Further evidence has emerged from research in the United States that antiretroviral therapy based on a protease inhibitor (PI) during the first three months of pregnancy

Published
18 December 2012
By
Michael Carter
Diagnosing children
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics are essential to achieving an AIDS-free generation and improving outcomes in HIV-exposed children

This edition reviews recent evidence on point-of-care testing, on tests in development, and looks at experience of optimising performance of dried blood spot sampling.

Published
14 December 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Epidemiology and behaviour
More South African pregnant women contracting HIV

A new study has shown increased HIV infection rates among pregnant women living in areas with high migrant labour in South Africa, the country with one of the world's highest caseloads.

Published
13 December 2012
From
Jamaica Observer
HIV treatment in children
DNDi is awarded USD 17.3 million from UNITAID to spur development and delivery of child-adapted ARVs

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative welcomes the announcement by UNITAID to grant up to USD 17.3 million to the organization for its pediatric HIV program.

Published
12 December 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
HIV treatment in children
UNITAID new grants total $120 million: Focus on childhood AIDS, TB and malaria

UNITAID has made new grants to allow hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries to access better and more affordable medicines for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB).

Published
10 December 2012
From
UNITAID
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