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FYI - For folks in the UK.
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*Young people needed to change way they learn about sex and relationships*
THT's Young Leaders project is looking to recruit 12 young people aged 13-19
to be on the regional board for London. The board will award grants to other
young people to to run their own sex and relationships education projects
with their peers. Board members will receive accredited (OCN) training in
'sex and relationships education' and 'developing group and teamwork
communication skills' as well as make new friends and have lots of fun!
If you are interested in applying to be on the board you can go to a
recruitment event run by the current Young Leaders. The event will give you
a chance to find out more about the project, what's involved in being on the
board, get an idea for the kinds of topics that will be covered and meet
other young people who are interested. The dates and times for the
recruitment events are as follows:
Thursday April 2nd: 6-9pm
Saturday April 4th: 12-3pm
Sunday April 5th: 3-6pm
Tuesday April 7th: 2-5pm
You only need to attend one event. All the events will take place in Kings
Cross.
If you are interest in attending please contact Andie Dyer (Office Manager)
on 020 7812 1791 or *andie.dyer (at) tht.org.uk*
*De :* Linda Toocaram [mailto:ltoocaram (at) ncb.org.uk]
*Envoyé :* 24 March 2009 12:50
*À :* Lynne Sergeant
*Objet :* HIV Network Update March '09
*Network Update* * *
The Children and Young People HIV Network aims to be an effective voice for
children and young people living with and affected by HIV, to challenge the
stigma and discrimination associated with HIV, and to build child-centred
policy and practice. It is a national network based at the National
Children's Bureau in London.
Please forward this bulletin to anyone who may be interested.
* * *Training* * *
The Children and Young People HIV Network are pleased to announce upcoming
training events.
* * *Children First: Meeting the needs of children & young people living
with HIV*
Wirral, 27 April, 9:30 4:30 (Venue TBC)
London, 15 June, 9:30 4:30 (Venue TBC)
This one-day training course have been developed by the HIV Network, part of
the National Childrens Bureau, to explore the issues that can arise when
working with children, young people and families both infected with and
affected by HIV in all settings. The course aims to give participants a
greater understanding and insight into the issues facing children, young
people and their families who are living with HIV, and increase
participants skills and confidence in meeting these needs.
Click here for flyers and booking forms or visit our website: *
www.ncb.org.uk/hiv*
* * *Publications* * *
*Looking After HIV: Considering the needs of HIV positive looked after
children*
by Amanda Ely
FREE
The Children and Young People HIV Network has published a document which
reports the findings of research which it has undertaken over the past year
into the experiences of looked after children who are HIV positive.
This research considers how the needs of these children are understood and
responded to by the professionals involved with their care as looked after
children. A number of cases were considered in the research, reflecting HIV
positive children and young people looked after in foster care placements
and residential childrens homes, and included the experiences of
unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC). Through the case examples
areas of professional awareness and understanding about HIV, policy and
practice guidance, and consideration of risks of harm to young people,
including risks of onward transmission of HIV, are explored.
The practitioners and young people interviewed offered many of the
recommendations. These include training and awareness; the need for policy
and practice changes, especially on confidentiality and information sharing;
the responsibility of the looked after childrens sector to de-stigmatise
HIV; and that all discriminatory practice to be dealt with accordingly.
To receive a copy of this document please email:
*hiv (at) ncb.org.uk*, sending full postal address. The
document is free of charge, although for
large orders we may request postal costs to be covered. You can also
download the document free of charge from our website:
*www.ncb.org.uk/hiv*
*Children, HIV, Asylum & Immigration: An overview of the current situation
for children living with HIV and insecure immigration status*
FREE
This report presents the experiences of children and families who are either
infected with, or affected by, HIV and who have insecure immigration status.
The aim is to see if HIV makes a difference to the lives of these children
and the issues they face being in the UK as asylum seekers, visa overstayers
or undocumented people. This report strives to understand how children and
their families experience the combined impacts of living with HIV while also
living with insecure immigration.
Copies can be downloaded or please email *hiv (at) ncb.org.uk*
with your request and full postal address.
*Developing support services for children, young people and families living
with HIV: A handbook for service providers*
FREE
The Children & Young People HIV Network, with the support of the African HIV
Policy Network and Children with AIDS Charity (CWAC) has produced a handbook
that offers good practice, ideas and examples for those wanting to develop
support services for either children, young people and families living with
HIV, or wanting to review their current service provision.
Copies can be downloaded or please email *hiv (at) ncb.org.uk*
with your request and full postal address.
*Highlight No.228: Children and young people living with HIV/AIDS*
This research summary is available from NCB's Library and Information
Service.
Individual copies are £3 (NCB Members £2)
You can also contact the library at *library (at) ncb.org.uk*
*HIV and Schools: Good practice guide to supporting children infected and
affected by HIV*
FREE
This A5 guide has been produced to offer schools information and best
practice guidance when supporting pupils who are either infected with HIV or
who have one or more family members infected with HIV. Content includes:
Routes of HIV transmission and schools; Living with HIV; Working towards an
HIV-friendly school and Disclosure and confidentiality.
Also included are case studies and a list of useful resources and
organisations.
This document is now only available in PDF
(*www.ncb.org.uk/hiv*).
*Children's Rights and HIV*
On the 2nd June 2004 the Children and Young People HIV Network ran a
day-long seminar to explore the specific issue of Childrens Rights and
HIV. Three specific areas were discussed, Health and Treatment; Education;
Asylum. A report summarising the day is available in word format and for a
copy email *hiv (at) ncb.org.uk* .
*'Will Someone Listen?': Meeting the needs of Children and Young People
living with HIV*
Report on UK seminars April - July 2003
FREE
The findings from seminars run last year, along with recommendations. If
you would like to receive a copy please email your name and postal address
to *hiv (at) ncb.org.uk*
*News* * *
*Cambodian officials increase focus on children living with HIV/AIDS*
*Medical News Today*
Cambodia has shifted the focus of its HIV/AIDS prevention efforts from young
adults to children in response to 2008 statistics that show an increase in
rates of antiretroviral use among children and mother-to-child transmission.
The director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STDs, Mean
Chhi Vun, has said that the government has begun a program to provide "HIV
testing for 6,745 pregnant women [this year] in 68 health centers across
five of our operational districts." Teng Kunthy, general secretary of the
National AIDS Authority of Cambodia, said that the government is also
focusing on a national registration programme to coordinate treatment for
children living with HIV. The programme "has been running smoothly so far
and has encouraged more children to seek treatment," said Kunthy.
*Young people needed to change way they learn about sex and relationships*
THT's Young Leaders project is looking to recruit 12 young people aged 13-19
to be on the regional board for London. The board will award grants to other
young people to to run their own sex and relationships education projects
with their peers. Board members will receive accredited (OCN) training in
'sex and relationships education' and 'developing group and teamwork
communication skills' as well as make new friends and have lots of fun!
If you are interested in applying to be on the board you can go to a
recruitment event run by the current Young Leaders. The event will give you
a chance to find out more about the project, what's involved in being on the
board, get an idea for the kinds of topics that will be covered and meet
other young people who are interested. The dates and times for the
recruitment events are as follows:
Thursday April 2nd: 6-9pm
Saturday April 4th: 12-3pm
Sunday April 5th: 3-6pm
Tuesday April 7th: 2-5pm
You only need to attend one event. All the events will take place in Kings
Cross.
If you are interest in attending please contact Andie Dyer (Office Manager)
on 020 7812 1791 or *andie.dyer (at) tht.org.uk*
*HIV rates increases by 3% among pregnant women in Swaziland*
*The Guardian*
The number of pregnant women who are infected with the virus that causes
AIDS has increased in Swaziland, which already has the highest AIDS rate in
the world, according to a recent government report. About 42% of pregnant
women in the southern African nation were HIV positive in 2008 - a 3%
increase over the previous year - partly due to more women taking
life-prolonging antiretroviral medication, the report said. The country's
health minister, Benedict Xaba, voiced disappointment at the increase in new
infections among young women, indicating that education campaigns are not
working. "There is therefore a need to accelerate HIV prevention efforts
especialy those targeted at youth," he said.
*Lesotho diaries*
*BBC*
The BBC and Medecins Sans Frontieres have been following the lives of seven
people from St. Rodrigue, in Lesotho, as they cope with HIV/AIDS, including
a young orphan with HIV.
PPC opportunities
Positive Parenting and Children (PPC) are recruiting foster carers,
volunteers, peer mentors and befrienders in various South London boroughs.
For more information,
PPC are also looking for young people to join their support group.
For more information, contact PPC at
*office (at) ppclondon.org.uk*, tel: 020 7738 7333
*Health* * * *CHIVA *
For up-to-date articles, protocol and drugs for paediatric use, all
specifically for HIV positive children visit CHIVA's website (CHIVA
-Children's HIV Association of UK and Ireland). *http://www.bhiva.org/chiva/
*
* * *NAM * * *
*Breastfeeding in HIV-positive mothers in Botswana did not affect mortality*
*Aidsmap*
A controlled, randomised, prospective trial of 1200 HIV-positive mothers in
Botswana found no differences in mortality between those who breastfed and
those who formula fed. A trend toward faster declines in CD4 cell count
began to emerge several years after cessation of breastfeeding, but this was
not statistically significant and its significance is unknown.
*ART use in mothers with low CD4 cell counts reduces breastfeeding
transmission fivefold in Malawi*
*Aidsmap*
The use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by breastfeeding mothers greatly
reduced the risk of HIV transmission to their infants after a 14-week course
of infant HIV prophylaxis was stopped, according to a study performed in
Malawi and presented to the Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and
Opportunistic Infections (CROI). However, ART use did not significantly
reduce transmission risk in mothers with CD4 cell counts above 250
cells/mm3. The best means of preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV
(MTCT) during breastfeeding is currently the subject of much research and
discussion. Formula feeding is not a viable alternative to breastfeeding in
most resource-poor settings, as lack of clean water presents essentially as
great a risk to infants as the risk of HIV transmission through
breastfeeding.
*Double-dose lopinavir/ritonavir provides insufficient lopinavir exposure in
children on rifampicin-based TB treatment*
*Aidsmap*
Doubling the dose of lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) in children with HIV on
rifampicin-based TB treatment fails to provide adequate lopinavir
concentrations according to a drug interaction study presented at CROI. It
really leaves us with a gap between what is feasible, safe and effective
treatment for this group of children who really need co-treatment [for HIV
and TB] because of its huge benefit on survival, said Dr Helen McIlleron,
from the University of Cape Town, who presented the study findings.
*Maternal resistance to nevirapine following single dose reduced by AZT/ddI
or one month's ART*
*Aidsmap*
Two Thai studies have provided further evidence that short courses of more
than one antiretroviral drug after delivery almost eliminate the risk of
nevirapine resistance in mothers when it is used to prevent mother-to-child
transmission, thus preserving nevirapine as an option for maternal treatment
when eventually needed.
*Nearly half of new infant HIV infections in Botswana may result from
mothers infected during pregnancy or after delivery*
*Aidsmap*
In discussions of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, the assumption is
often made that the mothers themselves were already HIV-positive at or
before the time of becoming pregnant. This assumption was challenged at a
session on mother and child health issues at CROI. Presenter Lydia Lu of the
Centers for Disease Control, on behalf of a US/Botswana research team,
estimated that over 40% of infants who acquired HIV via mother-to-child
transmission (MTCT) in 2007 may have been born to mothers who became
HIV-infected during pregnancy or in their first post-partum year, when they
were likely to be breastfeeding.
*STI risk factors for black and ethnic young people in London explored*
*Aidsmap*
Multiple sexual partners, inconsistent condom use and different perceptions
and expectations of sexual relationships between males and females are the
leading risk factors for sexually transmitted infections among black and
ethnic minority youth in North West London. This is according to the
findings in a report published in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted
Infections. The researchers also found that young people faced a risk of
sexually transmitted infections because they did not think they were at risk
of such infections and also because they expected infections to cause
symptoms.
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current issues that you feel the Network would benefit from being included
in the bulletin. Please send information and where possible a web link
and/or email contact to: *hiv (at) ncb.org.uk*
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