Current perspectives on paediatric HIV management from the Mexico International Aids Society Conference, 2019
Date
2019-10-31
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AOSIS
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While acknowledging the great achievements in getting 23 million people living with HIV to
access antiretroviral treatment (ART) globally, there is still more to do in order to close the
HIV treatment gap between the paediatric and adult ART programmes, with only 54% of
children accessing ART compared to 62% of adults. Furthermore, while tremendous global
gains have been made in preventing perinatal and postnatal HIV acquisition, HIV-exposed
and uninfected children are still not achieving early childhood developmental outcomes
comparable to HIV-unexposed children. In this article, we present highlights from two preconference
meetings (11th International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics and 5th Workshop on
Children and Adolescents HIV Exposed and Uninfected) and the International Aids Society
(IAS) meeting held in Mexico in July 2019.
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CITATION: Archary, M., Fairlie, L. & Slogrove, A. 2019. Current perspectives on paediatric HIV management from the Mexico International Aids Society Conference, 2019. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 20(1):a1027, doi:10.4102/sajhivmed.v20i1.1027.
The original publication is available at https://sajhivmed.org.za
The original publication is available at https://sajhivmed.org.za
Keywords
Paediatric ART Conferences; International Aids Society; management of pregnant and breastfeeding women; paediatric/adolescent HIV; treatment update., Paediatric ART Conferences, International Aids Society, HIV positive -- Mothers -- Management, Antiretroviral agents, HIV-positive children, HIV-persons -- Breastfeeding
Citation
Archary, M., Fairlie, L. & Slogrove, A. 2019. Current perspectives on paediatric HIV management from the Mexico International Aids Society Conference, 2019. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 20(1):a1027, doi:10.4102/sajhivmed.v20i1.1027.