HIV/AIDS News

Approximately half of the 6.3 million children who died before aged 5 years in 2013 died of infectious causes, according to study findings in The Lancet.

A partnership of nonprofit organizations and research institutions will launch a 5-year project conducting, promoting and disseminating AIDS and HIV research, according to a press release.

Brief telephone counseling sustained long-term impact from an STI and HIV intervention program from the CDC among black adolescent girls, according to study findings in JAMA Pediatrics.

There were no differences in pregnancy incidence, birth outcomes or infant growth among serodiscordant couples in which HIV-negative women were receiving pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, according to new data.

Children with HIV have an increased risk for hospitalization with invasive pneumococcal disease or varicella zoster compared with children who do not have HIV, according to study findings in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

ViiV Healthcare is providing more than $2.5 million in additional funds for the Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research program, or CIPHER, according to a press release from the International AIDS Society. The funding will be used to research and develop new ways to prevent HIV infections in children living in resource-limited settings.

According to a new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, there has been a significant reduction in the global burden of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis since 2000, when governments worldwide adopted Millennium Development Goal 6 to combat these diseases.

Asian children with HIV showed low incidence and prevalence rates for liver dysfunction before and after cART, according to research presented at the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

Children who began ART in late adolescence were less likely to continue therapy than children who began ART in early adolescence, according to research presented at the AIDS 2014 meeting.

Certain economic and psychosocial provisions appear to reduce incidence of HIV-risk behaviors among male and female adolescents in South Africa, according to research presented at the AIDS 2014 meeting.