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Diagnosing children
False-negative confirmatory HIV tests in children are frequent after starting ART

False-negative rapid antibody tests, in the absence of virologic testing at the age of 18 months, in children receiving antiretroviral treatment can result in interruption of treatment, and

Published
19 September 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
HIV treatment in children
Watch for cryptococcal disease in children with HIV, South African doctors warn

Clinicians in low- and middle-income countries should give greater consideration to the possibility that infants and children with HIV are presenting with symptoms of cryptococcal disease, according to

Published
17 September 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
HIV treatment in children
World's first HIV/AIDS nanomedicines

New HIV treatments offer particular hope for treating children with HIV, which affects 3.4 million children under 15 in sub-Saharan Africa.

Published
03 September 2012
From
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
HIV treatment in children
UGANDA: Children's HIV treatment must improve

HIV activists have called on the Ugandan government to urgently address the rollout of paediatric HIV treatment; just 26 percent of children who need the life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs have access to them, compared to 55 percent of adults.

Published
09 August 2012
From
PlusNews
HIV treatment in children
Needs of adolescents with HIV need greater attention, AIDS 2012 hears

Complications of HIV infection among adolescents in resource-poor settings include malnutrition, chronic lung disease and tuberculosis as well as the long-term side effects of drugs - including lipodystrophy, peripheral

Published
09 August 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Retention and linkage to care
HIV treatment for children: how programmes are improving diagnosis and retention

“It is unacceptable that children at this point in time are not receiving treatment,” René Ekpini of UNICEF told a satellite session supported by UNICEF, IAS-ILF and MSH

Published
27 July 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Delivery of care
Community-based support aids retention, adherence and treatment response

Patient retention and linkage throughout the cascade of HIV care remains very low, placing the concept of ‘test and treat’ as part of the solution to ending

Published
26 July 2012
By
Lesley Odendal
HIV treatment in children
Efavirenz Works in Kids with Both HIV and TB

Children co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis appear to suppress both infections when treated with standard TB regimens and an efavirenz-based HIV regimen, researchers said here at the International AIDS Conference.

Published
25 July 2012
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
HIV treatment in children
Adolescent antiretroviral options expanding

A range of new antiretroviral drugs are in development for adolescents with HIV, a population which may have extensive experience of antiretroviral therapy and resistance to some

Published
25 July 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
HIV treatment in children
New antiretrovirals for infants and children still needed

Promising new formulations of antiretroviral agents including tenofovir, fosamprevanir, dolutegravir, etravirine and raltegravir for treating the often neglected needs of infants, children and adolescents with HIV were presented

Published
25 July 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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