Early diagnosis and prompt antiretroviral therapy initiation are critical for children due to the rapid progression of HIV in infants, explains Priscilla Tsondai, MD, MPH, and unlike adults they ...

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 ...

Mother-to-child transmission often led to pretreatment drug resistance and acquired drug resistance in children living with HIV. The rate of transmission of HIV from a mother to her child without ...

When I got into that preschool classroom, I forgot about my HIV diagnoses...I couldn’t have time to be helpless.' Gwendolyn Sullivan said.

Researchers at Western and the University of Calgary have discovered how HIV hides in different parts of the body by ...

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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 ...

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford ...

Experts assessed the potential impacts on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa if the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is suspended or only receives ...