Antiretroviral treatment, management challenges and outcomes in perinatally HIV‐infected adolescents

AL Agwu, L Fairlie - African Journal of Reproduction and …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Three decades into the HIV/AIDS epidemic there is a growing cohort of perinatally HIV-
infected adolescents globally. Their survival into adolescence and beyond represent one of …

Neurodevelopment in children born to HIV-infected mothers by infection and treatment status

K Le Doare, R Bland, ML Newell - Pediatrics, 2012 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND: We reviewed the impact of HIV, HIV exposure, and antiretroviral
therapy/prophylaxis on neurodevelopmental outcomes of HIV-infected and HIV-exposed …

Constructing inverse probability weights for marginal structural models

SR Cole, MA Hernán - American journal of epidemiology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The method of inverse probability weighting (henceforth, weighting) can be used to adjust
for measured confounding and selection bias under the four assumptions of consistency …

Declines in mortality rates and changes in causes of death in HIV-1-infected children during the HAART era

MT Brady, JM Oleske, PL Williams, C Elgie… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Declines in Mortality Rates and Changes in Causes of Death i... : JAIDS Journal of Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndromes Declines in Mortality Rates and Changes in Causes of Death in …

Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in children

E Venturini, A Turkova, E Chiappini, L Galli… - BMC infectious …, 2014 - Springer
HIV is the top and tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death from infectious disease
worldwide, with an estimated 8.7 million incident cases of tuberculosis and 2.5 million new …

Impact of HAART and CNS-penetrating antiretroviral regimens on HIV encephalopathy among perinatally infected children and adolescents

K Patel, X Ming, PL Williams, KR Robertson, JM Oleske… - Aids, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Prior to antiretroviral treatment, HIV-infected children frequently developed
encephalopathy, resulting in debilitating morbidity and mortality. This is the first large study …

Dynamics and constraints of early infant diagnosis of HIV infection in rural Kenya

AS Hassan, EM Sakwa, HM Nabwera… - AIDS and Behavior, 2012 - Springer
A cohort design was used to determine uptake and drop out of 213 HIV-exposed infants
eligible for Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) of HIV. To explore service providers and care givers …

The effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on the survival of HIV-infected children in a resource-deprived setting: a cohort study

A Edmonds, M Yotebieng, J Lusiama… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background The effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on the survival of HIV-
infected children has not been well quantified. Because most pediatric HIV occurs in low …

Changing trends in complications and mortality rates among US youth and young adults with HIV infection in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy

G Mirani, PL Williams, M Chernoff… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has resulted in a dramatic decrease
in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–related opportunistic infections and deaths in US …

Impact of disclosure of HIV infection on health-related quality of life among children and adolescents with HIV infection

AM Butler, PL Williams, LC Howland, D Storm… - …, 2009 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND. Little is known concerning the impact of HIV status disclosure on quality of
life, leaving clinicians and families to rely on research of children with other terminal …