News by topic

Search through all our worldwide HIV and AIDS news and features, using the topics below to filter your results by subjects including HIV treatment, transmission and prevention, and hepatitis and TB co-infections.

Families and children news

Show

From To
HIV treatment in children
Achieving an AIDS-free generation: Don't forget children living with HIV

Since 2005, the number of children living with HIV receiving lifesaving treatment has quadrupled. But still, only 28 percent of the nearly two million children in need of lifelong HIV treatment are getting it.

Published
10 December 2012
From
The Hill
Infant feeding
Exclusive breastfeeding hampered by infant illnesses, follow up of mothers with HIV shows

Only one third of women counselled to exclusively breast feed for six months in the Kesho Bora study were able to sustain the practice for at least

Published
07 December 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
HIV treatment in children
Childhood HIV Risks Becoming Neglected Disease As Fewer Children Born With HIV, Experts Warn

Because fewer children are born with the virus, drug companies no longer have an incentive to manufacture treatments - childhood HIV might become a neglected disease.

Published
06 December 2012
From
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
HIV in children
Atherosclerosis Found in HIV Children

Children with HIV have a 2.5 fold increased risk of atherosclerosis, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging Modalities 2012.

Published
06 December 2012
From
Science Daily (press release)
Infant feeding
KENYA: Exclusive breastfeeding on the rise

Kenya has made significant strides in boosting exclusive breastfeeding, even passing a new law banning the promotion of infant formula. Nevertheless, challenges to safe infant feeding - a major part of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission - remain.

Published
05 December 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Relationships and feelings
The Price of Ignoring the Sexuality of Kenya's HIV Positive Youth

“The problem is in the transition into adolescence and teenage years. You are dealing with young people who are at an age where they don’t communicate well. The needs of HIV positive teenagers are real and they are ignored just the same way the sexual and reproductive health needs of teens in general are ignored,” an activist said.

Published
03 December 2012
From
Inter Press Service
Global health initiatives
Clinton reveals ‘blueprint’ for reaching an ‘AIDS-free generation’

The world can control the AIDS epidemic in four or five years and set it on a trajectory to become a small, if permanent, problem, according to a State Department document made public Thursday. An “AIDS-free generation” — a goal that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touted a year ago — could be reached by starting more infected people on AIDS drugs, circumcising men in high-prevalence countries and making sure that every HIV-positive pregnant woman is treated.

Published
30 November 2012
From
Washington Post
Global health initiatives
PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-Free Generation

Secretary Clinton commemorated World AIDS Day 2012 and unveiled the PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation that provides a roadmap for how the U.S. Government will work to help achieve an AIDS-free generation.

Published
29 November 2012
From
PEPFAR
Tuberculosis and HIV
Children with TB – Global interest at last

At last, tackling tuberculosis (TB) in children is on the international agenda. This year, for the first time, an estimate of the extent of TB in children was included in the Global Tuberculosis Report.

Published
28 November 2012
From
PLoS Blogs (blog)
HIV treatment in children
European Commission approves Viread ® for HIV-1 infection in children and adolescents and for chronic hepatitis B in adolescents

New oral granule formulation and lower-strength tablets available for new indications.

Published
28 November 2012
From
Gilead press release
← Prev1...34567...71Next →

Filter by country