Pediatric hiv
Pediatric HIV Costs Across Three Treatment Eras From 1986 to 2007
... in pediatric HIV is now being du- plicated in developing countries with programs of research combined with rapid translation into practice being conducted in India and several sites in ...of ...
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Lessons From Pediatric HIV: A Case for Curative Intent in Pediatric Cancer in LMICs
... the pediatric HIV treatment ...International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, have established comprehensive pediatric HIV treatment centers throughout southern ...Botswana, pediatric ...
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The burden of pediatric HIV/AIDS in Constanta, Romania: a cross sectional study
... 1989-90 pediatric HIV epi- demic in Romania have been ...the HIV infected children were born to uninfected moth- ers, HIV transmission was presumed to be related either to transfusion of ...
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Hospital admissions from a pediatric HIV care and treatment program in Malawi
... for HIV- infected and exposed children with special attention to ...comprehensive pediatric HIV care package. The demographics of children in HIV care will be changing as national PMTCT ...
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Pediatric HIV care and treatment services in Tanzania: implications for survival
... to HIV care and treatment services contributes to improved quality of life, and thus economic, social and political development of society [10], which is in keeping with the United Na- tions (UN) sustainable goals ...
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Surveillance of Pediatric HIV Infection
... ABSTRACT. Pediatric human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) surveillance should expand to include perinatal HIV ex- posure and HIV infection as well as ...
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Variability of efavirenz plasma concentrations among pediatric HIV patients treated with efavirenz based combination antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
... A total of 327 children were screened from the clinic at- tendance registers, whereby 151 children were approached at MNH [10], IDC (44), Temeke Hospital [25], Mwananyamala Hospital [26], Mbagala Rangi Tatu Hospital [27] ...
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Antiretroviral Therapy and Medical Management of Pediatric HIV Infection
... increasing HIV RNA levels, 2) rapidly declining CD4 1 T-cell lym- phocyte number or percentage to values approach- ing those indicative of moderate immune suppres- sion (ie, immune category 2 [Table 2]), and 3) ...
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Prognostic Value of a CCR5 Defective Allele in Pediatric HIV-1 Infection
... and reported that approximately 50% of those with the 32 CCR5 heterozygous mutation, but only 11% of those without the mutation, were still asymptomatic (CDC category N or A) at 8 years of age. However, most children ...
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Growth Failure as a Prognostic Indicator of Mortality in Pediatric HIV Infection
... Sixty-one patients died during the period of obser- vation. Table 2 shows the distribution of mortality by group and age at death. Forty-five of 84 HIV1 in- fants (54%) died before their second birthday, a sig- ...
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The Evaluation of Pediatric HIV Care in Congo
... with HIV, a study was carried out between January and De- cember 2014, that is in 12 months at University Center Hospital (UCH) of Brazzaville, in the two Ambulant Treatment Centers (ATCs) of Brazzaville and ...
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Cognitive and psychosocial development of HIV pediatric patients receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy: a case-control study
... that pediatric HIV patients have an increased likelihood of abnormal emotional and hyper- activity scores may be indicative of a potentially elevated risk for impaired social skills in adulthood, ...
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The role of etravirine in the management of treatment-experienced pediatric patients with HIV
... Abstract: Pediatric patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are now living longer, healthier lives due to the advent of combined antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, including regimens that often ...
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Antiretroviral treatment in HIV-1 infected pediatric patients: focus on efavirenz
... on pediatric use of efavirenz that led to its approval derived from the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) 382 study, in which 57 HIV-infected NRTI-pre- treated children received efavirenz ...
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Pediatric palliative care for youth with HIV/AIDS: systematic review of the literature
... with HIV appears to focus on amelioration of pain symp- toms and managing physical care of patients near end of ...with HIV. Most articles reported youth with HIV in a palliative care program to ...
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Quantitative Computerized Tomography (QCT) versus Dual X Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) in the Assessment of Bone Mineral Density of HIV 1 Infected Children
... The study population was recruited from the Mattel Children’s Hospital at the University of California Los Angeles Pediatric HIV Clinic from 2006 to 2009 during regular clinic visits. The Institutional ...
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Use of task shifting to rapidly scale up HIV treatment services: experiences from Lusaka, Zambia
... adult HIV treatment; 270 in pediatric HIV treatment; 341 in adherence counseling; 91 in a specialty nurse "triage" course, and 93 in an intensive clinical mentorship ...
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The global pediatric antiretroviral market: analyses of product availability and utilization reveal challenges for development of pediatric formulations and HIV/AIDS treatment in children
... in HIV/AIDS treatment programs and sug- gested that the lack of child-friendly versions of ARVs contributes to high rates of HIV/AIDS deaths in chil- dren under two years of age ...appropriate ...
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Active case finding: comparison of the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of targeted versus blanket provider-initiated-testing and counseling of HIV among children and adolescents in Cameroon
... of pediatric HIV commodities, low retention, delayed test results, weak follow-up after delivery and poor linkage to treat- ment ...for HIV case finding among older children ( ≥ 18 months) is ...of ...
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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Complications in Children Born to HIV-1-Infected Women With a Review of the Literature
... Bacillus Calmette-Gu#{233}rin immunization in infants born to HIV-1 seropositive mothers. BCG vaccination and pediatric HIV infection-Rwanda,[r] ...
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