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...paper, they are the lucky ones, the 10,000 or so children and and adolescents living with HIV in the United States. They have access to the latest anti-HIV drugs, powerful medications that can keep the virus at bay and, for all intents and purposes, keep them alive long enough for them to date, attend college, marry, and start families of their own. They are indeed fortunate - although living with HIV, even in the U.S., remains a challenge. But these young pioneers - many of them among the first to test antiretroviral (ARV) medications against HIV - are teaching doctors valuable...
...least that's what patients like Cristina Pena hope for. Now a 22-year-old college student in Los Angeles, Pena was infected at birth by her mother, who was unaware that Pena's father, now deceased, had transmitted the virus to her before she became pregnant. Pena knows nothing but living with HIV, although she didn't always know what HIV was. When Pena was young, her mother told her that the medications she took every day were for ear infections, and, Pena says, "you believe your parents." When she was nine, she finally asked her mother about...
...certainly welcome news for the 530,000 young children newly infected with HIV last year and for the over 2 million children and adolescents currently living with the virus. For them, getting the treatments that have saved millions of lives in the U.S. and Europe was especially difficult - in part due to the scarcity of health-care workers that can barely care for HIV-positive adults, much less babies and children, and in part due to the fact that AIDS medications simply didn't come in doses made for children. The few child-friendly regimens that have been available...
...faced. "The three biggest issues in pediatric AIDS treatment have been adherence, adherence, adherence," says Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, professor of pediatrics at University of Massachusetts Medical School. "Studies have shown that patients have to be over 95% adherent in taking their medications in order to continue to suppress their virus. One of the biggest issues overseas is going to be making sure the medical infrastructure and personnel are trained not only to administer the drugs but to conduct the follow up that's necessary to keeping these drugs effective...
...Africa, which had established a breast milk bank in 2001. Babies infected with HIV, orphaned and abandoned because their mothers had succumbed to AIDS, are cared at the orphanage. In sub-Saharan Africa, three million children, age five and younger, are orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS. Since the virus can transfer through breast milk, and formula is often mixed with unclean water by African mothers, iThemba Lethu relies on donated breast milk to feed the children there and boost their immune systems...