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This document is a training material for a 4-day training course on counselling to support children’s adherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART).
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Hong Kong locates in Asia, the new burning place of HIV infection, but still enjoying a low-prevalence of HIV infection. While sexual transmission was the predominant route of transmission in Hong Kong, an outbreak in injecting drug users was worried as taking reference from the experience in other Asian areas. Various public health measures have kept the prevalence of drug users at exceptional low level, as comparing with our neighbouring cities. This year, an increasing trend was detected in Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in Hong Kong. The report analysed the attributes of the increase of HIV infections in MSM observed. A HIV-1 Subtype B cluster of similar gene sequencing affecting 20 individuals, mostly MSM, was firstly detected in Hong Kong. It signified the increased risk of local transmission of HIV among MSM.
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This publication is intended to serve as a reference tool for countries with limited resources as they develop or revise national guidelines for the use of ART in adults and postpubertal adolescents. The material presented takes updated evidence into account, including new ART treatment options, and draws on the experience of established ART scaleup programmes. The simplified approach, with evidence-based standards, continues to be the basis of WHO recommendations for the initiation and monitoring of ART.
The guidelines are primarily intended for use by national and regional HIV programme managers, managers of nongovernmental organizations delivering HIV care services, and other policy-makers who are involved in the scaling up of comprehensive HIV care and ART in resource-limited countries. The comprehensive, up-to-date technical and clinical information on the use of ART, however, also makes these guidelines useful for clinicians in resource-limited settings. The recommendations contained in these guidelines are made on the basis of different levels of evidence from randomized clinical trials, high-quality scientific studies, observational cohort data and, where insufficient evidence is available, expert opinion.
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The objective is to determine ARV firstline drug toxicity in 30 month of treatment among HIV/AIDS patients in cohort ESTHER Calmette Hospital.
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On 25 October 2005, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), UNICEF and partners across the globe launched the most ambitious campaign to date to focus the world’s attention on the impact HIV and AIDS are having on children and young people today. Under the banner “Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS”, the Global Campaign on Children and AIDS sought to raise the alarm for the millions of children already living with or affected by HIV and press countries into taking action for them and future generations. For too long, children have been absent from the global HIV prevention, AIDS treatment and care agendas, and the campaign seeks to relegate these grievous omissions to the past.
This campaign could not have come at a more opportune time in East Asia and the Pacific. While HIV prevalence in the region remains relatively low, the virus poses a serious threat. East Asia’s massive population coupled with rapidly changing social and economic dynamics could escalate epidemics, and in turn, jeopardize the tremendous development gains that have greatly benefited millions of children in the region. The threat is of a different nature in the Pacific, where HIV could devastate sparse populations and undermine whole cultures and societies.
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With a view to facilitating the scaling up of access to antiretroviral therapy, and in line with a public health approach, this publication outlines recent revisions WHO has made to case definitions for surveillance of HIV and the clinical and the immunological classification for HIV-related disease. HIV case definitions are defined and harmonized with the clinical staging and immunological classifications to facilitate improved HIV-related surveillance, to better track the incidence, prevalence and treatment burden of HIV infection and to plan appropriate public health responses. The revised clinical staging and immunological classification of HIV are designed to assist in clinically managing HIV, especially where there is limited laboratory capacity. The final revisions outlined here are derived from a series of regional consultations with Member States in all WHO regions held throughout 2004 and 2005, comments from public consultation and the deliberations of a global consensus meeting held in April 2006.
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HIV/AIDS situation in Cambodia
- First HIV detected in 1991
- First AIDS case diagnosed in 1993
- Main route of HIV transmission: heterosexual
- 1998: 179,000 people living with HIV and AIDS
- Estimated adult population infection rate: 1.9 %
- Estimated number of PLHAs among adult population: 123,100 (women
- 57,500)
- AIDS patients: ~ 20,000
- No National Data of HIV infected Children
- ( Some Organizations estimated 9,000 HIV infected Children and 3,000 AIDS)
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Successful scaling-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) requires rational use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.
These guidelines are based on the discussions held with health-care workers, researchers and programme managers from South-East Asia during a regional consultation organized by the World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia (WHO SEARO) and the United Nations Children's Fund Regional Office for South Asia (UNICEF ROSA) in New Delhi during 2006. This consultation meeting reviewed the new data, experiences of scaling-up of pediatric ART in the Region and made recommendations for adaptation to the needs in the Region of the global WHO guidelines on Antiretroviral therapy of HIV infection in infants and children in resource-limited settings: towards universal access. To facilitate use at the country level the consultation recommended simplification of the global guidelines.
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Main objective
• Retrospective cohort analysis of patients who started ARV 24 + 2 months ago and followed without viral load monitoring
Secondary objectives
• Description of success/failure clinico-immunological criteria at 24 months and at 6, 12 and 18 months
• Identification of the reasons for virological failure at 24 months
• Description of resistance mutations to ARV observed at 24 months
• Analysis of the observance of the patients still on ARV at 24 months
• Evaluation of ARV side-effects during the 24 months of treatment
• Pharmacological analysis of ARV at 24 months
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This is a presentation on results obtained from the implementation of the project, "A comprehensive intervention based on peer education for injecting drug users" in Lang Son. The objective of this project is to restrain HIV/AIDS epidemic within IDUs and from this group in to community in Lang Son.