Pediatric HIV in Kano, Nigeria

Abstract

Early diagnosis of pediatric HIV and prompt institution of treatment in children would go a long way in reducing the scourge of the disease.

Incidence of Vertical-Transmission of HIV and Its Correlation with Maternal Gestational Age at Antenatal Booking in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

“…The 7.57% overall incidence of mother-to-child transmission in this study is similar to several other findings within and outside of Nigeria [8,34] where mother-baby pairs received some form of antiretroviral therapy or prophylaxis for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. While, our prevalence rate is higher than what was reported by Anoje et al [35], [36] and [37]; it is lower than the findings of Buseri and Okonkwo, Oyesakin et al and Anoje et al [33,38,39]. In spite of this, our current rate is a far cry from the desired zero to less than 1% advocated for good PMTCT outcome worldwide.…”

Paediatric HIV testing beyond the context of prevention of mother-to-child transmission: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…7 Paediatric inpatient programmes were the most common context (17), 6,7,10,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][21][22][23][24][25]29,30 followed by nutrition centres (four), 9,11,12,27 EPI centres (three), 20 programmes (three). 8,20,31 The assessment for quality showed that most of the included studies (20) [9][10][11][12][15][16][17][18][19][20][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] were of fair or good quality and the remainder (six) [6][7][8]13,…”

“…9,23,28,31 Paediatric HIV prevalence across contexts in southern and eastern Africa was 17·8% (95% CI 12·8-22·7) and prevalence in west and central Africa was 9·8% (95% CI 4·2-15·3). Because of the small numbers of studies from Asia and Oceania, these geographical settings were not included in stratifi ed analyses.…”

“…Because of the small numbers of studies from Asia and Oceania, these geographical settings were not included in stratifi ed analyses. We did stratifi ed analysis examining universal (eight studies) 7,16,18,19,22,23,25,29 versus triggered testing (nine) 6,10,[13][14][15][16]22,24,30 in inpatient settings. Paediatric HIV prevalence detected via triggered testing (21·3%, CI 11·6-31·0) was slightly, but not signifi cantly (p=0·95), higher than that detected with universal testing (21·2%, 13·8-28·7; appendix pp 10-11).…”

Profile of HIV infected children: A hospital based study at Eastern Nepal

“…Predominant presentations include respiratory infections, malnutrition, diarrhea, and septicemia [13] . Fever and persistent generalized lymphadenopathy were common symptom and sign at presentation in our study.…”