Overview
The Child and Adolescent Committee promotes best practice HIV prevention, care and treatment services for children and adolescents. The committee works closely with the National Department of Health on the development of evidence-based guidelines, and provides guidance and direction to all Society child and adolescent-related programmes and activities.
View the Committee’s Strategic Objectives
Leadership
The Committee is led by an elected six-member leadership group, comprised of Dr Moherndren Archary, Prof Ashraf Coovadia, Prof Brian Eley, Dr Leon Levin and Dr James Nuttall and Dr Helena Rabie. The Committee’s Chair is Dr James Nuttall.
For more information about the Committee, please contact sahivsoc@sahivsoc.org, or send an email to child_adolescent@sahivsoc.org.
Resources
If you have clinical questions about the management of paediatric or adolescent patients, please contact the National HIV and TB Health Care Worker Hotline at 0800 212 506, or send an email to the Society at child_adolescent@sahivsoc.org.
Guidelines and Interim Clinical Advice
National Department of Health. Guidelines for the Management of HIV in Children, 2010
National Department of Health. Clinical Guidelines: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission, 2010
Antiretroviral Drug Dosing Chart for Children (2009)
WHO: Paediatric HIV Publications
WHO: Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV Publications
Articles and Publications
Infant Feeding
Yezingane Network and UNICEF.
Questions and Answers: Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV in South Africa, July 2011
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Cotton M, Rabie H. The conundrum of infant feeding for HIV infected women continues.
Aid for AIDS Healthcare Professional Newsletter. February 2012, Issue 31.
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Tenofovir Use in Children and Adolescents
Cotton, M and Levin, L. Tenofovir for Children and Adolescents.
Aid for AIDS Healthcare Professional Newsletter. June 2012, Issue 32.
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