{"id":6870,"date":"2002-11-13T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:50:40","slug":"highlights-of-the-autumn-chiva-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/6870","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of the autumn CHIVA meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pat Tookey gave an update of UK epidemiological data. There has been a continuing rise in antenatal seroprevalence as judged by anonymous unlinked Guthrie card testing. About 1:230 women delivering live babies in London are HIV infected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most dramatic rise has been in Outer London over the last two years. In the rest of the UK and Scotland, approximately 1:5000 women are infected. Antenatal testing rates are improving but do not look likely to meet the Dept of Health targets of 90% uptake by the end of 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Di Gibb used the Collaborative HIV Paediatric Surveillance study (which captures data on 85% of infected children living with HIV in the UK and Ireland) to draw attention to the improvements in survival for infected children over time.<\/p>\n<p>Crude mortality in vertically infected children by calendar year in this analysis (n=687) showed that the estimated number of children in this follow up rose at approximately 50 children each year from100 in 1991 to 500 in 2000, with a slight fall to 490 in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>In the years 1993-1996 approximately 10-20 deaths were recorded each year, dropping to less than five for 1997 and 1998, no deaths in 1999 and 2000 and a small increase to less than five in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Tookey gave an update of UK epidemiological data. There has been a continuing rise in antenatal seroprevalence as judged by anonymous unlinked Guthrie card testing. About 1:230 women delivering live babies in London are HIV infected. The most dramatic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","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=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}