Globally, around 2.6 million children and adolescents are currently living with HIV, the majority of them in Africa. These young people are much more likely to experience treatment failure than adults ...

Oral HPV prevalence is higher in HIV-positive mother-child pairs, with diverse high- and low-risk subtypes identified. HPV-related cancers are more prevalent in HIV-positive individuals, especially in ...

Data from researchers working with children who acquired HIV from their mothers through pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding has shown that antiretroviral (ARV) drugs administered early in their ...

Priscilla Tsondai, MD, MPH, breaks down top care gaps as opportunities for care improvement. Prominent gaps in pediatric and adolescent HIV care translate into priorities that need to be addressed for ...

A global study led by researchers at University College London (UCL), published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that a regimen based on a once-a-day small dolutegravir tablet was ...

Can HIV cure be achieved in children? Children with HIV face a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to suppress HIV replication. While this is one outlook, an HIV cure in children would re-write ...

New evidence from global HIV research suggests that the first widespread cure for HIV may be possible in children who receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) early in life. Pediatrician and immunologist ...

Unintended pregnancies are more common in sub-Saharan Africa than the world average: up to 91 out of 1,000 pregnancies compared to 64 in 1,000. Unintended pregnancy is common among women living with ...

Delivering a single shot of gene therapy at birth could offer children protection against HIV for years. A study from the Tulane National Primate Research Center and California National Primate ...

As in the immunocompetent child, AOM is common in the first year of life, but with increasing age the HIV-infected child has a higher annual incidence of infections than the immunocompetent child.

At a press conference in Abuja to mark the World AIDS Day 2024, Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) Dr Temitope Ilori complained about the rate of mother-to-child ...

Globally, around 2.6 million children and adolescents are currently living with HIV, the majority of them in Africa. These young people are much more likely to experience treatment failure than adults ...