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标题：Impediments to HIV testing in HIV-infected children and teenagers in Africa: look for them where they are!
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作者：P. Msellati ; F. Ateba Ndongo ; F. Hejoaka 等
期刊名称：Médecine et Santé Tropicales
印刷版ISSN：1157-5999
电子版ISSN：1950-6953
出版年度：2016
卷号：26
期号：1
页码：10-14
DOI：10.1684/mst.2015.0519
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Authors P. Msellati ¹ * F. Ateba Ndongo ² F. Hejoaka ¹ B. Nacro ³ 1 IRD UMI 233 TransVIHMI, UM Inserm U1175, 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier cedex 5, France 2 Unité de jour, Centre mère enfant, Fondation Chantal Biya, Yaoundé, Cameroun 3 Service de pédiatrie, CHU de Bobo Dioulasso, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso * Correspondance Key words: HIV, children, teenagers, screening, Africa DOI : 10.1684/mst.2015.0519 Page(s) : 10-4 Published in: 2016 A huge number of HIV-infected children and teenagers have no access to care or receive it very late. Of the 3.2 million infected children, 2.8 million should be receiving highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) but only around 700,000 actually are. The first reason for this failure is the lack of HIV testing among HIV-exposed infants and thus early diagnosis or, even more frequently, the lack of testing among older children and teenagers. The objectives of this article are twofold: to review the current situation and to advocate routine offers of HIV testing to HIV-exposed children and teenagers (exposed either through mother-to-child transmission or repeated transfusions) and those suspected to be HIV-infected (because of malnutrition, tuberculosis, or other associated diseases). Finally, adults living with HIV should be made aware of the need for routine HIV screening of their children, even when asymptomatic.
关键词：HIV; children; teenagers; screening; Africa