HIV testing for children in resource-limited settings: What are we waiting for?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Kellerman, Scott ^a   Essajee, Shaffiq ^b  

^a Management Services for Health   (United States)

^b CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABACAVIR PLUS LAMIVUDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS NEVIRAPINE PLUS STAVUDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS NEVIRAPINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS STAVUDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; AFRICA; ALGORITHM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PEDIATRICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77955030470     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000285     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. UNICEF (2009) Children and AIDS. 4th Stocktaking Report 2009. New York: UNICEF.
2. UNAIDS (2009) Report on the global HIV/ AIDS epidemic 2009. New York: UNAIDS.
3. WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF (2009) Towards universal access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector: Progress report 2009. Geneva: WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Available: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/towards_universal_access_report_2008.pdf. Accessed 7 October 2009.
4. Newell ML, Brahmbhatt H, Ghys PD (2004) Child mortality and HIV infection in Africa: a review. AIDS 18 Suppl 2: S27-34.
5. UNAIDS, WHO (2004) UNAIDS/WHO policy statement on HIV testing. Geneva: UNAIDS.
6. WHO, UNAIDS (2007) WHO/UNAIDS guidance on provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in health facilities. Available: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2007/9789241595568_eng.pdf. Accessed 10 September 2009.
7. Violari A, Cotton MF, Gibb DM, Babiker AG, et al. (2008) Early antiretroviral therapy and mortality among HIV-infected infants. N Engl J Med 359: 2233-44.
8. World Health Organization (2008) WHO antiretroviral therapy for infants and children 2008. Report of the WHO Technical Reference Group, Paediatric HIV/ART Care Guideline Group Meeting. Geneva. Available: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/paediatric/WHO_Paediatric_ART_guideline_rev_mreport_2008.pdf. Accessed 10 September 2009.
9. Branson BM, Handsfield HH, Lampe MA, Janssen RS, Taylor AW, et al. (2006) Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings. MMWR Recomm Rep 55: 1-17.
10. DeCock KM, Bunnell R, Mermin J (2006) Unfinished business: expanding HIV testing in developing countries. N Engl J Med 354: 440-42.
11. WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF (2008) Towards Universal Access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector: Progress report 2008. Geneva: WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Available: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/towards_universal_access_report_2008.pdf.
12. Kenya wakes up to the reality of paediatric HIV (2007) The East African Standard (Nairobi), 5 January 2007.
13. Rollins N, Mzolo S, Moodley T, Esterhuizen T, van Rooyen H (2009) Universal HIV testing of infants at immunization clinics: an acceptable and feasible approach for early infant diagnosis in high HIV prevalence settings. AIDS 23: 1851-57.
14. Kankasa C, Carter RJ, Briggs N, Bulterys M, Chama E, et al. (2009) Routine offering of HIV testing to hospitalized pediatric patients at university teaching hospital, Lusaka, Zambia: acceptability and feasibility. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 51(2): 202-8.
15. Kimbrough LW, Fisher HE, Jones KT, Johnson W, Thadiparthi S, et al. (2009) Accessing social networks with high rates of undiagnosed HIV infection: the social networks demonstration project. Am J Public Health 99: 1093-09.
16. Menzies N, Abang B, Wnayenze R, Nuwaha F, Mugisha B, Coutinho A, Bunnell R, Mermin J, Blanford J (2009) The costs and effectiveness of four HIV counseling and testing strategies in Uganda. AIDS 23: 395-401.
17. th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. 19-22 July 2009. Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.
18. th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. 19-22 July 2009. Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.
19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2002) HIV testing among pregnant women- United States and Canada 1998-2001. MMWR 51: 1013-16.
20. UNICEF (2008) Children and AIDS. 3rd Stocktaking Report 2008. New York: UNICEF.
21. The Clinton Foundation (2009) Antiretroviral Price List 2009. Available: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/files/chaiarvpricelistaugust2009english.pdf.