PHA-Exchange> Prolonging Survival Among AIDS Children - Address Correction

[claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn]

Apparently when this message was sent out a wrong address was added for people 
who wanted to contact me. ( The incorrect address was sminkin at yahoo.com.  The 
correct one is sfminkin at yahoo.com. ) To avoid this name confusion please have 
people who want this important article to  contact me at niphiv at yahoo.com. 
Thanks,
Steve

HIV POSITIVE CHILDREN OF CALCUTTA- SURVIVAL STRATEGIES WITHOUT ANTIRETROVIRAL 
DRUGS 

Author- Dr. S. Bhattacharyya, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics & Incharge 
Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic, Medical College, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, 
India. 
Summary :- Pediatric HIV is rapidly progressive than adult HIV infection. 
Antiretroviral drugs are costly and thus are beyond the reach of the families 
of HIV positive children. In this study some non-retroviral strategies were 
tried for the prolongation of survival of 65 (42 males and 23 females) HIV 
positive children (2-11 years) who were mostly from poor families. They were 
longitudinally followed up for three and a half years at Calcutta, India with 
regular checkup, counseling regarding high standard of hygiene and nutrition, 
nutritional supplementation, aggressive management of opportunistic 
infections, and CD4 count monitoring. Significant number of children (83%) 
were found to be maintaining good health, schooling and near normal CD4 count 
with significant decrease in the mortality (8 %). 


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