{"id":503,"date":"2008-08-29T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T16:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/new\/htb\/?p=503"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:18:12","slug":"who-recommends-treating-all-hiv-infected-infants-aged-less-than-12-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/503","title":{"rendered":"WHO recommends treating all HIV-infected infants aged less than 12 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Polly Clayden, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Following a meeting In April 2008 of the WHO Technical Reference Group for Paediatric HIV\/Antiretroviral Therapy and Care to consider the implications of recent research findings, the WHO have revised their guidelines for treatment and care of infants infected with HIV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of particular importance is the new recommendation: &#8220;All infants under 12 months of age with confirmed HIV infection should be started on antiretroviral therapy, irrespective of clinical or immunological stage.&#8221; This was made in light of findings from the CHER study, in which dramatic reduction in mortality (75%) was observed in infants treated immediately irrespective of immunological or clinical criteria compared to infants whose treatment was deferred until criteria as outlined in the previous treatment guidelines were met.<\/p>\n<p>Other research and observational data also suggest that early antiretroviral therapy in infancy dramatically reduces the risk of death and disease progression.<\/p>\n<p>The full report from the meeting and new recommendations can be accessed at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/events\/paediatricmeetingreport.pdf\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/events\/paediatricmeetingreport.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Clayden, HIV i-Base Following a meeting In April 2008 of the WHO Technical Reference Group for Paediatric HIV\/Antiretroviral Therapy and Care to consider the implications of recent research findings, the WHO have revised their guidelines for treatment and care &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-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paediatric-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}