Nearly one in five children with HIV under the age of one year who experienced an interruption in treatment in 2024 subsequently died, a review of over half a million children receiving HIV treatment through US-funded PEPFAR programmes shows. The findings were presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2025) in San Francisco on Monday.
The findings highlight the importance of maintaining continuity of care for children with HIV, who are especially vulnerable to rapid progression of HIV disease in the early years of life. Although the study was designed to establish rates of loss from care and resumption of care in PEPFAR programmes over time, the findings also starkly illustrate the risks associated with interruptions to funding of treatment programmes.
Since the new US administration took office on 20 January, the closure of USAID and a devastating freeze on overseas assistance have thrown many US-supported HIV treatment programmes into crisis.
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Source : aidsmap
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