Announcements

  • 48th Union World Conference: Review finds missed opportunities for preventive therapy for children w

    While the vulnerability of children HIV to tuberculosis has prompted World Health Organization guidelines recommending TB preventive therapy for children with the virus who are over a year old, a review of patient data across 10 years at a Swaziland center providing care to about a fifth of all children with HIV in the high-burden country found that just 55 percent of eligible children were prescribed the treatment, a presenter here said Oct. 12.