Erschienen in:
08.02.2019 | Editorial Commentary
Coming of Age: Young Adults with Perinatally Acquired HIV Infection
verfasst von:
Aparna Mukherjee, Rakesh Lodha
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 3/2019
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Excerpt
With the widespread availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), a new demographic has been added to the people living with HIV (PLHIV) – young adults who were perinatally infected with HIV. In 2017, according to the World Health Organization, 5 million young people (15–24 y) were living with HIV including the vertically infected ones [
1]. This group has their own unique perspectives and issues– physical, mental health, psycho-social, education and career. Recent studies worldwide have tried to provide insight into the issues of perinatally infected adolescents and young adults [
2,
3]; there is still a substantial data gap, especially in the Indian context. The perinatally HIV infected adolescents and young adults face the consequences of the chronic disease per se as well as the long-term effects of ART. They may be shorter than their HIV uninfected counterparts with delayed puberty [
4], have some degree of cognitive impairment [
5], and lung function deterioration in the form of obstructive disease [
6]. In addition, they are more likely to have other organ dysfunctions– cardiac and renal. …