Maripat Toye

TL;DR: Caregivers felt that the most helpful interventions would be modifications to improve the convenience and palatability of medications and increased access to medical advice.

TL;DR: The long-term outcome of protease inhibitor and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) first-line ART and viral load switch criteria in children with HIV is assessed.

TL;DR: Generally parents of HIV-infected children 6 months to 4 years and 5 to 11 years of age generally reported lower mean QoL scores than did parents of uninfected children, although worse psychological functioning was reported for unin infected children, and no consistent QOL differences among children receiving different antiretroviral regimens.

TL;DR: Missed opportunities for perinatal HIV prevention contributed to more than half of the cases of HIV-infected infants, and the combination of lack of maternal HIV testing before delivery and lack of prenatal antiretroviral therapies were significantly associated with per inatal HIV transmission.

TL;DR: Children treated with protease inhibitors with HIV-associated lipodystrophy syndrome had higher total cholesterol, higher low density lipoprotein-cholesterol and higher triglycerides than untreated children.