{"id":4064,"date":"2001-01-17T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2001-01-17T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2001-01-17T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2001-01-17T10:10:12","slug":"most-untreated-african-hiv-children-will-die-by-age-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/4064","title":{"rendered":"Most untreated African HIV children will die by age 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 90% of HIV-infected children in Africa fail to survive until their third birthday. Once an AIDS-related condition occurs, more than half of infected children die within 12 months, according to results of a study conducted in Malawi. Dr. Taha E. Taha, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues call their study &#8220;one of the largest studies of HIV-infected children who have been followed in sub-Saharan Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For about 18 months, the investigators followed 190 HIV-infected children, 499 uninfected children born to HIV-positive mothers, and 119 uninfected children born to HIV-negative mothers. Eighty-nine percent of HIV-infected African children alive at 6 months died by age 3, the authors report in the December issue of Pediatrics. In comparison, in a European study, only 18% of HIV-infected children died by age 3 years, and a US study found that 75% lived to age 5 years, the report indicates.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers suggest that improved management of persistent diarrhoea and chronic middle-ear infections would &#8220;substantially reduce&#8221; deaths in this population. &#8220;Efforts to make available simple diagnostic tests and procedures to help clinicians provide better care for the children of developing countries should be a priority,&#8221; Taha and colleagues conclude.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: Pediatrics 2000;106.<\/p>\n<p>Source: CDC HIV\/STD\/TB Prevention News Update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 90% of HIV-infected children in Africa fail to survive until their third birthday. Once an AIDS-related condition occurs, more than half of infected children die within 12 months, according to results of a study conducted in Malawi. Dr. Taha &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paediatric-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}