Children and HIV/Aids

Table of Contents

• New Arrivals
• Archive Links und Documents
  • Links
  • Documents

New Arrivals

• Children and AIDS – Fifth UNICEF Stocktaking Report, 2010
  • December 2010
  • PDF, English
  • by UNICEF
  • Virtual elimination of mother-to-child, or vertical, transmission of HIV by 2015 has now become a reachable goal. Many countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe are close to meeting the 2010 universal access target for PMTCT coverage. However, high coverage has not necessarily resulted in low transmission. The goal of virtual elimination of vertical transmission requires re-focusing on outcomes and impact.

Archive Links and Documents

Links

• www.childinfo.org
  • Monitoring the situation of children and women
  • Quelle: UNICEF

Documents

• PMTCT Strategic Vision 2010–2015: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals
  • March 2010
  • PDF, English
  • Moving towards the elimination of paediatric HIV. The purpose of this document is to define WHO’s commitment to global and country support to scale up access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services and integrate these services with maternal, newborn and child and reproductive health programmes. The objectives included in this PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015 illustrate WHO’s ongoing commitment to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) goals on PMTCT and strengthening support for PMTCT within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
  • © World Health Organization 2010

• UNICEF/UNAIDS Fourth Stocktaking Report on Children and AIDS
  • December 2009
  • PDF, English
  • The Fourth Stocktaking Report on Children and AIDS calls attention to children and young people living in a world with HIV and AIDS. It comes four years after the launch of Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS, an initiative dedicated to putting children at the heart of the global AIDS response. The Stocktaking Report - a joint effort of UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO and UNFPA - allows to reflect on how well the obligations to children have been met, and offers authoritative data, evidence and recommendations on how to accelerate action at all levels. On the occasion of its release on World AIDS Day 2009, the report charts progress towards the 2010 Universal Access targets and takes stock of the many challenges to meeting these goals. What you’ll find in this report:
    • Age- and gender- specific data on mothers, infants, children and young people.
    • Current knowledge, emerging evidence and examples of what works in the global response for children.
    • Concrete recommendations for action that can improve the well-being of children and help nations keep their commitments.
    • Investment needs to meet the goal of universal treatment, care and support for children.
  • Further information, a summary report, a powerpoint presentation and a factsheet are available online at: www.uniteforchildren.org

• HIV and infant feeding: Revised Principles and Recommendations
  
  • November 2009
  • PDF, English
  • WHO recommendations on infant feeding and HIV were last revised in 2006 (published in 2007 as an HIV and Infant Feeding Update – ISBN 978 92 4 159596 41). Significant programmatic experience and research evidence regarding HIV and infant feeding have accumulated since then. In particular, evidence has been reported that antiretroviral (ARV) interventions to either the HIV-infected mother or HIV-exposed infant can significantly reduce the risk of postnatal transmission of HIV through breastfeeding. This has major implications for how women living with HIV might choose to feed their infants, and how health workers should counsel mothers when making these choices. The potential of ARVs to reduce HIV transmission throughout the period of breastfeeding also highlights the need for guidance on how child health services should communicate information about ARVs to prevent transmission through breastfeeding, and the implications for feeding of HIV exposed infants through the first two years of life.
  • Rapid Advice by the World Health Organization

• Use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants
  • November 2009
  • PDF, English
  • Rapid Advice by the World Health Organization

• Early Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality among HIV-Infected Infants
  • November 2008
  • PDF, English
  • In countries with a high seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), HIV infection contributes significantly to infant mortality. We investigated antiretroviral-treatment strategies in the Children with HIV Early Antiretroviral Therapy (CHER) trial
  • For the CHER study team in "The New England Journal of Medicine", , 359; 21, 2233-2244, November 2008.

• Prescription for Life: Take action to help children living with HIV
  • May 2009
  • PDF, English
  • Action guide for teachers, parents and others who play a vital role in making young people aware of the world in which they live and empowering them to take action. Young people are encouraged to write letters to governments and pharmaceutical companies asking the to improve the treatment and services available to children living with HIV. Ideas are also given for students and youth groups to raise awareness of these issues in local newspapers and other media.
  • by the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance