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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
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
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)
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
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
HIV treatment in children
New World AIDS Day data shows fewer children born with HIV but UNITAID cautions against neglecting those living with the disease

UNITAID welcomes the good news this World AIDS Day that the number of children newly infected with HIV continues to decline but urges the international community to step up efforts for those children already living with the disease.

Published
28 November 2012
From
UNITAID
TB diagnosis
MSF: Standard TB test failing to detect the disease in children 93% of the time

New MSF multinational study of paediatric TB/HIV co-infection confirms crisis of undiagnosed TB among children

Published
16 November 2012
From
Médecins Sans Frontières press release
HIV treatment in children
Prezista® (darunavir) oral suspension receives European Commission approval for young children with HIV-1 infection

The approval is based on a 48-week analysis of ARIEL, a Phase II, open-label trial to evaluate pharmacokinetics, safety, tolerability and antiviral activity of darunavir in combination with low dose ritonavir in treatment-experienced HIV-1 infected children from 3 to < 6 years of age.

Published
30 October 2012
From
Janssen-Cilag press release
HIV treatment in children
Factors associated with improved access to treatment and care for children with HIV in Africa identified in 5-country study

Nutritional support, early infant diagnosis (EID), linkages with associations of people living with HIV and on-site prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services were associated with favourable paediatric enrolment

Published
05 October 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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