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UK Adolescents with Perinatally-Acquired HIV Are Not at Increased Risk of Anxiety, Depression

Adolescents and Adults Living with Perinatal HIV (AALPHI) is an ongoing study in the United Kingdom that follows a cohort of young people with perinatally-acquired HIV (PHIV) and a control group of HIV-affected youth, who have a parent, sibling, or other household member living with HIV.

Published
24 March 2018
From
MD Magazine
HIV treatment for children and young people
Very early treatment in children limits the HIV reservoir

Very early HIV treatment in infants is feasible and safe and leads to a small reservoir of infected cells, two studies from Botswana and Thailand

Published
13 March 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV treatment for children and young people
HIV-positive children in resource-limited settings can achieve good virological outcomes without routine viral load or CD4 cell count monitoring

HIV-positive children can achieve good virological outcomes without routine monitoring of CD4 cell count or viral load, investigators report in PLOS Medicine. The research was

Published
27 November 2017
By
Michael Carter
Resistance
HIV drug resistance found in more than half of young children in Africa

Approximately 54% of young children with HIV surveyed in Africa had resistance to one or more antiretroviral drugs, according to recent data.

Published
24 August 2017
From
Healio
The search for a cure
What can science learn from a child who has controlled HIV without drugs for more than 8 years?

An HIV-infected child in South Africa who is controlling the virus without antiretroviral (ARV) drugs has reinvigorated the push to find ways to allow people to control the virus for prolonged periods without treatment.

Published
27 July 2017
From
Science
The search for a cure
South African child has controlled HIV off treatment for 8.5 years

A nine-year-old South African child who was diagnosed with HIV infection at one month of age and received HIV treatment for 40 weeks during infancy has suppressed the virus

Published
24 July 2017
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV treatment for children and young people
HIV drug resistance becoming more common in Zambian infants

The proportion of infants with HIV who had drug resistance at the time of HIV diagnosis almost doubled in Zambia between 2009 and 2014 despite

Published
27 June 2017
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV treatment for children and young people
Khayelitsha study offers hope for children with HIV who are failing treatment

Good news from a recent programme conducted in Khayelitsha on children and adolescents with HIV who were failing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. It showed that most patients were able to suppress their high viral load within six months through continued adherence support...

Published
14 June 2017
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GroundUp
The search for a cure
Infants treated within days of birth can clear HIV reservoir rapidly

Viral load and viral DNA fall rapidly in infants who begin antiretroviral therapy (ART) within days of birth, two South African studies have found, showing the potential

Published
15 February 2017
By
Keith Alcorn
Diagnosing children
Point-of-care test improves infant HIV diagnosis rate, treatment starts and retention in care

Using a point-of-care test to diagnose HIV in infants significantly improved retention in care, speeded up antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and increased the proportion of infants who

Published
14 February 2017
By
Keith Alcorn
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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