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Africa

• AIDS
  • Cost-effectiveness of first-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected African children less than 3 years of age [2015]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • What is it going to take to move youth-related HIV programme policies into practice in Africa? [2017]

• UNAIDS
  • Advocacy toolkit — Africa united against childhood HIV — Free to Shine campaign [2020]
  • Empower young women and adolescent girls: Fast-Track the end of the AIDS epidemic in Africa [2015]

Asia, Pacific

• UNAIDS
  • Putting young key populations first — HIV and young people from key populations in the Asia and Pacific region 2022 [2022]

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Late-stage diagnosis of HIV infection in Brazilian children: evidence from two national cohort studies [2013]

Cameroon

• Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics
  • Practices of Care to HIV-Infected Children: Current Situation in Cameroon [2019]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Management of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children [2010]

Côte d'Ivoire

• PLoS ONE
  • Costs of Care of HIV-Infected Children Initiating Lopinavir/Ritonavir-Based Antiretroviral Therapy before the Age of Two in Cote d’Ivoire [2016]

Democratic Republic of Congo

• PLoS ONE
  • Antiretroviral Treatment Program Retention among HIV-Infected Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo [2014]

Developing countries

• BMC Pediatrics
  • An analysis of volumes, prices and pricing trends of the pediatric antiretroviral market in developing countries from 2004 to 2012 [2016]

East Africa

• Archives of Public Health
  • Prevalence and associated factors of HIV testing among young (15-24) women in eastern Africa: a multilevel analysis of demographic health survey data (2008-2018) [2022]

Eastern and Southern Africa

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Status of HIV Epidemic Control Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15–24 Years — Seven African Countries, 2015–2017 [2018]

• World Health Organization
  • The importance of sexual and reproductive health and rights to prevent HIV in adolescent girls and young women in eastern and southern Africa: evidence brief [2017]

Ethiopia

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Burden of anemia and its association with HAART in HIV infected children in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • HIV Serostatus Disclosure and Its Predictors Among Children Living With HIV in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

• IJID Regions
  • Early diagnosis, vertical transmission of HIV and its associated factors among exposed infants after implementation of the Option B+ regime in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• PeerJ
  • Pediatrics HIV-positive status disclosure and its predictors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Europe

• HIV Medicine
  • Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS Treatment Guideline 2016 update: antiretroviral therapy recommended for all children living with HIV [2016]
  • Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) guidelines for treatment of paediatric HIV-1 infection 2015: optimizing health in preparation for adult life [2015]

Germany

• Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
  • Dolutegravir (HIV infection) - Benefit assessment according to §35a Social Code Book V [2017]

International

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Barriers and facilitators to HIV prevention interventions for reducing risky sexual behavior among youth worldwide: a systematic review [2022]

• BMC Research Notes
  • Weight-for-age distributions among children with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) multiregional consortium [2020]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Pediatric HIV Case Identification Across 22 PEPFAR-Supported Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic, October 2019–September 2020 [2022]

• Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
  • The global epidemiology of adolescents living with HIV: Time for more granular data to improve adolescent health outcomes [2018]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Effectiveness and Safety of Atazanavir Use for the Treatment of Children and Adolescents Living With HIV: A Systematic Review [2022]

• International AIDS Society
  • Current perspectives on paediatric HIV management from the Mexico International Aids Society Conference, 2019 [2019]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Global HIV mortality trends among children on antiretroviral treatment corrected for under-reported deaths: an updated analysis of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS collaboration [2021]
  • Global temporal changes in the proportion of children with advanced disease at the start of combination antiretroviral therapy in an era of changing criteria for treatment initiation [2018]
  • Adolescent pregnancy at antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation: a critical barrier to retention on ART [2018]
  • Social protection: potential for improving HIV outcomes among adolescents [2015]
  • Reducing mortality in HIV-infected infants and achieving the 90–90–90 target through innovative diagnosis approaches [2015]
  • Optimizing drugs to reach treatment targets for children and adolescents living with HIV [2015]
  • Achieving 90–90–90 in paediatric HIV: adolescence as the touchstone for transition success [2015]

• Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Safety and efficacy of abacavir for treating infants, children, and adolescents living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Estimates of the global population of children who are HIV-exposed and uninfected, 2000–18: a modelling study [2019]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Global, regional, and national estimates of pneumonia burden in HIV-infected children in 2010: a meta-analysis and modelling study [2014]

• PLoS Medicine
  • The epidemiology of adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV: A cross-region global cohort analysis [2018]
  • Access to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected children aged 0–19 years in the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Global Cohort Consortium, 2004–2015: A prospective cohort study [2018]

• UNAIDS
  • Young people and HIV [2021]
  • Young people’s participation in community-based responses to HIV — From passive beneficiaries to active agents of change [2019]
  • Improving UNAIDS’ paediatric and adolescent estimates [2018]

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • Paediatric care and treatment
  • HIV and AIDS in Adolescents
  • Adolescent HIV prevention

Japan

• Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
  • Current status of pediatric human immunodeficiency virus infection in Japan [2014]

Low and middle income countries

• Archives of Public Health
  • Prevalence, socio-demographics and service use determinants associated with disclosure of HIV/AIDS status to infected children: a systematic review and meta-analysis by 1985-2021 [2022]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Estimating age-based antiretroviral therapy costs for HIV-infected children in resource-limited settings based on World Health Organization weight-based dosing recommendations [2014]

• Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Costs and cost-effectiveness of HIV early infant diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review [2022]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Models of support for disclosure of HIV status to HIV-infected children and adolescents in resource-limited settings [2018]
  • Attrition of HIV-exposed infants from early infant diagnosis services in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • Routine viral load monitoring in HIV-infected infants and children in low- and middle-income countries: challenges and opportunities [2017]

• PLoS Medicine
  • HIV Testing for Children in Resource-Limited Settings: What Are We Waiting For? [2010]

• PLoS ONE
  • School Based Sex Education and HIV Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2014]

Low-income countries

• BMC Medicine
  • Early infant HIV-1 diagnosis programs in resource limited settings: opportunities for improved outcomes and more cost-effective interventions [2011]

Malawi

• BMC Research Notes
  • Discordance between clinical and immunological ART eligibility criteria for children in Malawi [2014]

Namibia

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • HIV Prevention Program Eligibility Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women — Namibia, 2019 [2021]

• Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • “If I Take My Medicine, I Will Be Strong:” Evaluation of a Pediatric HIV Disclosure Intervention in Namibia [2015]

Nigeria

• BMC Pediatrics
  • How are children with HIV faring in Nigeria?- a 7 year retrospective study of children enrolled in HIV care [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Pediatric to adult healthcare transitioning for adolescents living with HIV in Nigeria: A national survey [2018]

South Africa

• AIDS Research and Therapy
  • Trends and correlates of HIV prevalence among adolescents in South Africa: evidence from the 2008, 2012 and 2017 South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour surveys [2021]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Infrastructural and human-resource factors associated with return of infant HIV test results to caregivers: secondary analysis of a nationally representative situational assessment, South Africa, 2010 [2019]

• BMJ Open
  • Interventions addressing the adolescent HIV continuum of care in South Africa: a systematic review and modified Delphi analysis [2022]

• Current HIV Research
  • Sexual Risk Reduction Interventions for HIV Prevention among South African Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review [2014]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Cotrimoxazole guidelines for infants who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: a call for a public health and ethics approach to the evidence [2022]

• Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
  • Virologic Failure among Children Taking Lopinavir/Ritonavir-Containing First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa [2015]

• South African Medical Research Council
  • HERStory2: Process evaluation of the combination HIV prevention intervention for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), Global Fund grant period 2019 to 2022 [2021]
  • HERStory: An evaluation of a South African combination HIV prevention intervention for adolescent girls and young women [2020]
  • Evaluation of a South African Combination HIV Prevention Programme for Adolescent Girls and Young Women: HERStory Study [2020]

Southern Africa

• Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Outcomes of infants starting antiretroviral therapy in Southern Africa, 2004-2012 [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Temporal Trends in the Characteristics of Children at Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in Southern Africa: The IeDEA-SA Collaboration [2013]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• AIDS Research and Treatment
  • A Systematic Review of Digital Interventions to Improve ART Adherence among Youth Living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa [2022]
  • Healthcare Workers' Perspectives on the Barriers to Providing HIV Services to Children in Sub-Saharan Africa [2019]

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Severe malnutrition and metabolic complications of HIV-infected children in the antiretroviral era: clinical care and management in resource-limited settings [2011]

• BioMed Research International
  • Health Risk Behaviour among Adolescents Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2018]

• BMJ Open
  • Adolescents and age of consent to HIV testing: an updated review of national policies in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Survival and HIV-Free Survival Among Children Aged <=3 Years — Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2015–2017 [2020]
  • Trends in Antiretroviral Therapy Eligibility and Coverage Among Children Aged 15 Years with HIV Infection — 20 PEPFAR-Supported Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2012–2016 [2018]
  • Early Diagnosis of HIV Infection in Infants — One Caribbean and Six Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2011–2015 [2016]

• Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Implementation of differentiated service delivery for paediatric HIV care and treatment: opportunities, challenges and experience from seven sub-Saharan African countries [2020]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Perspectives and Practice of HIV Disclosure to Children and Adolescents by Health-Care Providers and Caregivers in sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review [2016]

• Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
  • Informing the measurement of wellbeing among young people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa for policy evaluations: a mixed-methods systematic review [2020]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Health-related needs reported by adolescents living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review [2022]
  • Transition from paediatric to adult care of adolescents living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: challenges, youth-friendly models, and outcomes [2017]
  • Scaling a waterfall: a meta-ethnography of adolescent progression through the stages of HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa [2017]
  • Uptake and yield of HIV testing and counselling among children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2015]
  • Contemporary issues on the epidemiology and antiretroviral adherence of HIV-infected adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review [2015]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Perinatally acquired HIV infection in adolescents from sub-Saharan Africa: a review of emerging challenges [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Sex in the shadow of HIV: A systematic review of prevalence, risk factors, and interventions to reduce sexual risk-taking among HIV-positive adolescents and youth in sub-Saharan Africa [2017]

• Reproductive Health
  • Known HIV status among adolescent women attending antenatal care services in Eswatini, Ethiopia and Mozambique [2021]
  • HIV trends and disparities by gender and urban–rural residence among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Clinical outcomes of HIV-exposed, HIV-uninfected children in sub-Saharan Africa [2016]

Sweden

• Public Health Agency of Sweden
  • Sexuality and health among young people living with HIV in Sweden [2021]

Tanzania

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Implementation of antiretroviral therapy guidelines for under-five children in Tanzania: translating recommendations into practice [2015]

Thailand

• PLoS ONE
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Early Infant HIV Diagnosis of HIV-Exposed Infants and Immediate Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Children under 24 Months in Thailand [2014]

Togo

• AIDS Care
  • Closing the delivery gaps in pediatric HIV care in Togo, West Africa: using the care delivery value chain framework to direct quality improvement [2016]

Uganda

• African Health Sciences
  • Sexual, reproductive health needs and rights of young people with perinatally Acquired HIV in Uganda [2011]

• Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
  • Pharmacokinetics of Zidovudine Dosed Twice Daily According to World Health Organization Weight Bands in Ugandan HIV-infected Children [2014]

• Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
  • Closing the gap in HIV prevention and care for children: early insights from a model that links communities and health care facilities in Uganda [2016]

United Kingdom

• Children’s HIV Association
  • Guidelines

• Frontiers in Immunology
  • Strategies for Monitoring Outcomes in HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children in the United Kingdom [2016]

United States

• Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions
  • JRP-Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions Data Harmonization: Rationale and Development of Guidelines [2018]

• AIDS Patient Care and STDs
  • The Adolescent and Young Adult HIV Cascade of Care in the United States: Exaggerated Health Disparities [2014]
  • Conformity of Pediatric/Adolescent HIV Clinics to the Patient-Centered Medical Home Care Model [2013]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Adolescents and Young Adults: The Pediatrician’s Role in HIV Testing and Pre- and Postexposure HIV Prophylaxis [2021]
  • Evaluation and Management of the Infant Exposed to HIV in the United States [2020]
  • Increasing Antiretroviral Drug Access for Children With HIV Infection [2016]
  • Contraception for HIV-Infected Adolescents [2016]
  • Adolescents and HIV Infection: The Pediatrician's Role in Promoting Routine Testing [2016]
  • Diagnosis of HIV-1 Infection in Children Younger Than 18 Months in the United States [2015]
  • Psychosocial Support for Youth Living With HIV [2014]

• BMC Emergency Medicine
  • A systematic review of HIV screening programs conducted in pediatric emergency departments in the United States [2022]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Retention in Medical Care Among Insured Children with Diagnosed HIV Infection — United States, 2010–2014 [2017]
  • Vital Signs: HIV Infection, Testing, and Risk Behaviors Among Youths — United States [2012]
  • HIV, Other STD, and Pregnancy Prevention Education in Public Secondary Schools — 45 States, 2008–2010 [2012]

• Clinicalinfo
  • Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection

• JMIR Formative Research
  • Developing a Consensus for Adolescent and Young Adult mHealth HIV Prevention Interventions in the United States: A Delphi Method Study [2022]

• JMIR Research Protocols
  • Research Priorities to End the Adolescent HIV Epidemic in the United States: Viewpoint [2021]

• Pediatrics in Review
  • Preventing and Managing HIV Infection in Infants, Children, and Adolescents in the United States [2014]

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Effects of Condom Use on Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males in the United States: A Mixed Epidemiology and Epidemic Modeling Study [2021]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • HIV infection and AIDS in adolescents: An update of the position of the Society for Adolescent Medicine [2006]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Transitioning to the 2021 optimal formulary for antiretroviral drugs for children: implementation considerations [2021]
  • The 2021 optimal formulary and limited-use list for antiretroviral drugs for children [2021]
  • Point-of-care tests for diagnosing HIV infection among children younger than 18 months [2020]
  • Package of care for children and adolescents with advanced HIV disease: stop AIDS [2020]
  • Nurturing care for children affected by HIV [2020]
  • HIV strategic information: accelerating progress on HIV testing and treatment for children and adolescents through improved strategic information [2020]
  • Considerations for introducing new antiretroviral drug formulations for children [2020]
  • Toolkit: HIV molecular diagnostics toolkit to improve access to viral load testing and infant diagnosis: HIV treatment and care [2019]
  • Paediatric HIV testing strategy decision tool [2019]
  • HIV molecular diagnostics toolkit to improve access to viral load testing and infant diagnosis [2019]
  • Adolescent-friendly health services for adolescents living with HIV: from theory to practice [2019]
  • Toolkit for research and development of paediatric antiretroviral drugs and formulations [2018]
  • Policy brief: transitioning to an optimal paediatric ARV formulary: implementation considerations [2018]
  • Policy brief: the 2018 optimal formulary and limited-use list for paediatric ARVs [2018]
  • Paediatric ARV drug optimization 3 review: summary report [2018]
  • HIV diagnosis and ARV use in HIV-exposed infants: a programmatic update [2018]
  • AIDS free framework to accelerate paediatric and adolescent HIV treatment [2018]
  • 2018 optimal formulary and limited-use list for paediatric ARVs [2018]
  • HIV diagnostics: novel point-of-care tools for early infant diagnosis of HIV: information note [2017]
  • Pediatric advocacy toolkit: for improved pediatric HIV diagnosis, care and treatment in high HIV prevalence countries and regions [2011]
  • HIV testing in young children : technical briefing paper [2011]
  • Guideline on HIV disclosure counselling for children up to 12 years of age - Appendices [2011]
  • Guideline on HIV disclosure counselling for children up to 12 years of age [2011]
  • WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children [2010]
  • Participant manual : IMAI one-day orientation on adolescents living with HIV [2010]
  • Facilitator guide: IMAI one-day orientation on adolescents living with HIV [2010]
  • Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection in Infants and Children: Towards Universal Access. Recommendations for a Public Health Approach - 2010 Revision [2010]
  • A qualitative review of psychosocial support interventions for young people living with HIV [2009]

Zambia

• AIDS Research and Therapy
  • Impact of WHO guidelines on trends in HIV testing and ART initiation among children living with HIV in Zambia [2020]

• BMC Public Health
  • Progress in the performance of HIV early infant diagnosis services in Zambia using routinely collected data from 2006 to 2016 [2018]

• SAHARA-J
  • Changes in sexual behaviour and practice and HIV prevalence indicators among young people aged 15–24 years in Zambia: An in-depth analysis of the 2001–2002 and 2007 Zambia Demographic and Health Surveys [2013]

Zimbabwe

• BMC Public Health
  • Gender dimensions of the impact of HIV/AIDS on stunting in children under five years in Zimbabwe [2021]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Trends in HIV Testing and Associated Factors among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Zimbabwe: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey Data from 2005 to 2015 [2022]

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