Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19, efforts to dramatically decrease the number of new pediatric HIV infections and initiate children living with HIV on treatment had shown recent success. While this ...

For more than 20 years, Harvard infectious disease specialist Roger Shapiro has fought HIV on the ground in Botswana, where the rate of infection exceeded 30% in some areas of the country in the 1990s ...

Between 2010 and 2020, pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage tripled, but still consistently lagged behind adult ART coverage. In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) revised global HIV ...

Study results indicate suboptimal adherence to HIV-specific immunization recommendations among pediatric patients receiving ...

Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and ensuring children living with HIV are tested and initiated on treatment in a timely manner is critical to accelerating progress in responding to the ...

Advances in HIV treatment have transformed what was once a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition. Today, children living with HIV are surviving—and increasingly thriving—into adolescence ...

Symtuza is a 4-drug combination of darunavir, an HIV-1 protease inhibitor; cobicistat, a CYP3A inhibitor; and emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

Building trusting relationships and improving communication between youth living with HIV (YLH) and adult clinicians are critical to successful healthcare transitions (HCTs). Addressing inner context ...

For 1.7 million children living with HIV, a new formulation of a drug for adults is now available – and it could make treatment easier and cheaper. The pediatric formulation of dolutegravir, a drug ...

Indian pharmaceutical company Cipla manufactured an innovative drug that will treat HIV in children. The medicine, Quadrimune, is smaller in size and strawberry-flavored for administrative ease. CEO ...

Irene Nkosi educating women in Pretoria, South Africa, as part of her job with Mother2Mother. (Photo: Courtesy of m2m) When Irene Nkosi of South Africa was just 15 years old, she gave birth for the ...