Late diagnosis and HIV infection in children attending a service of specialized care for pediatric AIDS in Brazil

Abstract

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical http://dx.doi. org/10.1590/0037-8682-1737-2013 Late diagnosis and HIV infection in children attending a service of specialized care for pediatric AIDS in Brazil

Active tracking of rejected dried blood samples in a large program in Nigeria

“…Without treatment, HIV related mortality in infected infants peaks at 8 to 12 wk [38] . Delay in presentation for EID averts the opportunities to administer ARV and reduce MTCT [6,7,39] , thereby permitting the emergence of more severe clinical manifestation of HIV infection in pediatric patients [40] .…”

Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome epidemic in adolescents from a Brazilian metropolis (1978-2017)

“…administration of prophylaxis for vertical transmission in perinatal period and incorrect diagnosis of the disease during childhood. Such delay in HIV diagnosis in the studied population increases comorbidities of the disease and risk of HIV sexual transmission due to the lack of knowledge about seropositivity in high sexual experimentation 5,6 . Healthcare services have not been effective in establishing early diagnosis of HIV, and this is an essential measure to control AIDS.…”

Medical history and clinical examinations are insufficient to exclude vertical human immunodeficiency virus transmission in healthy, at‐risk adolescents

“…Failure to test children for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) when they have HIV-positive mothers is common in both high-income and lower-income settings. Children who are older at the time of their mother's HIV diagnosis face a higher risk of not being tested (1). In low-resource environments, about 25% of vertically HIV-1-infected and HIV-1-untreated children may be expected to reach the age of 13 (2).…”