From July 18 through 23, 2010, more than 19,000 delegates gathered in Vienna, Austria, for XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010). The conference accepted 6,238 abstracts covering all aspects of HIV and AIDS. Following AIDS 2010, IYCN and PATH compiled abstracts related to HIV and infant feeding, organized by theme.
This unique collection offers an overview of the current research presented on infant and young child feeding and HIV at the conference and can be used to identify trends and themes within the field.
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Abstract themes
We organized the collection of 72 abstracts into the following themes:
- ARVs and postnatal transmission
- Barriers and facilitators of PMTCT services
- Community-level PMTCT support
- Early infant diagnostics
- Health outcomes: nutritional status, morbidity, and disease
- HIV and infant feeding counseling
- HIV-free survival
- Infant feeding practices, options, and dilemmas
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mothers and communities
- Male involvement
- PMTCT service delivery
- Program scale-up
- Replacement feeding and infant formula
- WHO revised guidelines: scale-up and implementation
ARVs and postnatal transmission
- Early impact of extended prophylaxis with nevirapine on HIV acquisition among infants in Rural Rakai, Uganda
- Feasibility of implementing combination regimens for prevention MTCT in India
- Impact of triple-antiretroviral (ARV) prophylaxis during pregnancy and breastfeeding compared with short-ARV prophylaxis to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 (MTCT) on maternal disease progression: the Kesho Bora randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso (Bobo Dioulasso), Kenya (Mombasa, Nairobi) and South Africa (Durban, Somkhele), trial registration number ISRCTN71468401
- Maternal plasma viral load during pregnancy predicts HIV-1-specific IFN-y gamma responses in HIV-1-exposed, uninfected infants
- Pregnancy in HIV vertically-infected adolescents: a new generation of HIV-exposed infants
- Rates of mother to child transmission of HIV infection in Lagos, Nigeria
Barriers and facilitators of PMTCT services
- Cui Bono? ART and PMTCT access and equity for rural women and children in South Africa
- Factors affecting PMTCT service uptake and delivery in Taita District, Kenya
- Health system weaknesses restrict access to ART and PMTCT for women and children in South Africa
- Impact of GIP ESTHER support on the development of program for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in the urban municipality of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Investigating factors hindering progress in the prevention of vertical HIV transmission in Soweto, South Africa
- Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) in rural Lesotho: a cornerstone for reducing pediatric HIV/AIDS in resource-limited settings
- Routine HIV testing and counselling and access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission services: experiences of HIV-positive women in Kawempe division, Kampala district, Uganda
- Stigma as an important barrier to universal access to PMTCT: model projections
- Stigma-reduction: an essential component for effective and efficient health systems? Model projections for PMTCT
- Women’s perception of facility delivery, antiretroviral drug use and exclusive breastfeeding
Community-level PMTCT support
- Evaluation of a community-based prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programme in a slum area of Kampala, Uganda
- Supporting prevention of mother to child transmission services through a community network of mother-to-mother support: the experience of a community-based and nurse-led HIV/AIDS initiative in Kampala, Uganda
- Targeted community HCT outreach to improve PMTCT uptake in Nigeria
Early infant diagnostics
- Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 early detection by using dried whole blood spot among vertically exposed infants in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Using Swaziland’s national early infant diagnosis database to inform PMTCT program interventions
Health outcomes: nutritional status, morbidity, and disease
- Assessment of infant feeding practices using ICFI and its association with nutritional status among HIV-exposed infants in Rwanda
- The association between infant morbidities, HIV status, and growth failure during the first 12 months of life in Nigerian children born to HIV-infected women
- Clinic features of severe malnourished children with and without HIV infection
- Neutropenia, anemia and skin-rash among HIV exposed infants receiving nevirapine and cotrimoxazole compared to cotrimoxazole prophylaxis alone
- Nutritional status among children aged 9-24 born from known HIV status mothers in the National PMTCT Program in Rwanda: a national representative household survey
- Predictors of growth in HIV-1-exposed-uninfected infants in Kenya
HIV and infant feeding counseling
- The challenges of infant feeding for HIV positive women in South Africa
- Efficacy of ART/prophylactic regimen and concerted infant feeding counselling in preventing HIV transmission from mothers to newborns in Pakistan
- Facilitative quality improvement approach and its role in HIV counseling
- Maturation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme in Northern Tanzania
- Practices of offering a child prechewed or orally prewarmed food: the NISDI perinatal (LILAC) cohort in Latin America
- Using population-based surveys to assess programmatic outcomes for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: infant feeding practices among HIV-infected mothers in Southern Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV-free survival
- Are all exposed babies really linked to care? A retrospective cohort analysis from Mumbai
- Improving child health and HIV-free survival: a review of current research on risks and benefits of infant feeding options for HIV-positive moms
- Pediatric HIV-free survival following PMTCT programs in rural Malawi
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in central Haiti: HIV-free survival at 18 months of age in a cohort of HIV-exposed infants enrolled in the Partners In Health Zanmi Lasante (PIH/ZL) program
- Relationship of exclusive breastfeeding to infections and growth of Tanzanian children born to HIV-infected women
Infant feeding practices, options, and dilemmas
- Acceptability of a modified nipple shield device to reduce breast milk transmission of HIV in developing countries: a qualitative study
- Evaluating the implementation of flash-heating breast milk as part of the Infant and Young Child Feeding Program (IYCFP) in Rwanda
- Feeding choices of HIV positive and HIV negative mothers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: 2009
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mothers and communities
- Challenges in implementation of recommended feeding options among HIV-positive mothers in Northern Uganda
- Infant feeding practices of HIV positive mothers and challenges that they experience at Gert Sibande, Mpumalanga, South Africa
- Knowledge on mother to child transmission (MTCT) and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV among newly registered antenatal mothers in Medical Officer of Health (MOH) area in Ragama, Sri Lanka 2008-2009
- Mitigation of early childhood HIV infections in low income countries: knowledge and practices
Male involvement
- Comparison of four church-based PPTCT programmes in DR Congo, Nigeria and Zambia: strategies to enhance male HIV testing in antenatal care
- Husbands making a difference: mobilizing against paediatric HIV
- Improvement of PMTCT through male involvement: experience from Mtwango Health Centre in Iringa rural district, Tanzania
- Male involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in Northern Tanzania
PMTCT service delivery
- How are HIV services integrated into postnatal care in Kenya?
- A novel system to link and track HIV-positive mothers and their exposed infants and allow real-time program monitoring in resource-deprived settings
- Missed opportunities on HIV maternal to child transmission prevention in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Operational performance of PMTCT services among pregnant women in Mwanza City, Tanzania
- PMTCT activities in Armenia
- PMTCT services and interventions—coverage and utilization: a cohort analysis in Gujarat, India
- Post-exposure prophylaxis of breastfeeding HIV-exposed infants with antiretroviral drugs to age 14 weeks: updated efficacy results of the PEPI-Malawi trial
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection (PMTCT) at the Bostwana-Baylor Children’s
Clinical Centre of Excellence (BBCCCOE) in Gaborone, Botswana: 2009 cohort - Second babies delivered by HIV positive mothers accessing care in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme: characteristics and HIV transmission rate
- Strengthening PMTCT in antenatal and postnatal care services in KwaZulu-Natal
- Uptake and outcomes of a prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program for 382 mother-child pairs in Zomba district, Malawi
Program scale-up
- Accelerating scale up of PMTCT and paediatric HIV care in high HIV burden countries: 2009-2010 focus in Eastern and Southern Africa region
- Assessing four prong strategies to improve ART quality and coverage for preventing vertical transmissions in six countries: case study on the failures and challenges in policy development and implementation of prevention of vertical transmission programmes in Argentina, Cambodia, Moldova, Morocco, Uganda and Zimbabwe
- Scaling up of PMTCT programs in high HIV prevalence areas: a case of TASO Masaka in Uganda
- Virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in low- and middle-income countries: achievements, missed opportunities for improving program effectiveness and the way forward
Replacement feeding and infant formula
- Comprehensive approach to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Russian regions: implementation and lessons learned
- Decrease of the vertical transmission of HIV/AIDS in Cuba, January 1986-September 2009
- Evaluation of public policies to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1987-2008
- Experiences of HIV positive women going through artificial infant feeding in an urban public clinic offering services to low income populations in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Two years of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B screening in pregnant women in Guatemala
WHO revised guidelines: scale-up and implementation
- Cost and impact of adopting the new WHO guidelines to prevent mother-to-child transmission in Malawi
- Potential impact and cost-effectiveness of the 2009 “Rapid Advice” PMTCT guidelines—15 resource-limited countries, 2010
- UNICEF-WHO 2009 expert consultation to define the highest priority operational research (OR) questions for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and paediatric HIV care, support and treatment (CST)
Date: Jul 22, 2010 | Category: Research highlights