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 ...

Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With no family to care for him, Evans was referred to the orphanage by ...

Priscilla Tsondai, MD, MPH, breaks down top care gaps as opportunities for care improvement. Prominent gaps in pediatric and adolescent HIV care translate into priorities that need to be addressed for ...

Years ago, under the George W. Bush administration, the U.S. decided to put a lot of money into helping orphans, AIDS orphans. The disease had left some 12 million children without a parent, mostly in ...

Children have lost access to medication as a result of the cuts, locals say. Nearly 200 children live in a hillside village on the border of Kampala, Uganda. They are given food, shelter and an ...

Teams led by these officials contributed to efforts that help prevent HIV transmission from mothers to babies and treat children who are already infected. HealthDay News — The Trump administration has ...

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 ...

Children have the right to health, yet in Pakistan thousands continue to face a rising number of preventable HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infections that jeopardise their futures, and Pakistan's ...

AIDS orphans and vulnerable children are without support since the U.S. cut foreign assistance. A pastor has been frantically trying to find meds for an HIV-positive orphan who can no longer get them.