Latest Publications - Pediatric HIV/AIDS
Stepping Forward: What BASICS Can Offer
This brochure outlines the global situation of children living with HIV/AIDS, their needs, and BASICS' strategy for supporting those needs.
Child Health and Pediatric HIV/AIDS: A Brief Overview and Update
This document reviews critical, timely issues in the field of pediatric HIV/AIDS, including important sources for staying up-to-date on new information.
This article reviews challenges and opportunities for overcoming barriers to providing pediatric HIV care and treatment services.
This report provides findings from an assessment, conducted between June 6 and July 19, 2006 to assess and document the current status of pediatric HIV care and treatment services at the facility and community levels in three regions of Tanzania; document missed opportunities for identification and care and treatment of HIV-exposed and/or infected infants and children; and make recommendations to increase access to pediatric HIV care and treatment services.
WHO HIV and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation: Consensus Statement.
This consensus statement summarizes updated principles that will guide the efforts of BASICS and other child survival stakeholders in the area of HIV and infant feeding. The statement is the result of a meeting of researchers, program implementers, infant feeding experts, representatives of the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT), UN agencies, the WHO Regional Office for Africa and six WHO headquarters departments who met in October 2006 to review the substantial body of new evidence and experience regarding HIV and infant feeding.
Click here for a French version of the consensus statement.
