Integrating research into care: working with children and adolescents Mark Cotton Children’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit Tygerberg Children’s Hospital Stellenbosch University
Using data to influence policy: pre PMTCT N = episodes of hospitalization 1 st episode –Age 7.2 (1 to 141) months –Weight for age Z-score -2.6 (-6.4 to 2.5) ICU admissions 42 Deaths – 36 (40%) Burden of mother to child transmission of HIV: 5 year study of hospitalized children Cotton et al S Afr J Epidemiol Infect 1998: 13: Burden of mother to child transmission of HIV: 5 year study of hospitalized children Cotton et al S Afr J Epidemiol Infect 1998: 13: 46-49
Days in hospital & cost per year – all patients Hospital days = Hospital costs PMTCT would have saved days & costs Days Costs
Success of PMTCT in South Africa Sherman GG, S Afr Med J 2014; 104 (suppl) 235-8
% new registrations <1 year of age – Aid for AIDS
Age spectrum change over time Age at registration: Current age (2014)
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Epidemiology Treatment Mental health Neurodevelopment Cardiac effects Metabolic complications Bone health Kidney disease Chronic lung disease Disclosure (website) Executive editor - Shirin Heidari Managing editor - Mirjam Curno Executive editor - Shirin Heidari Managing editor - Mirjam Curno The challenges of success Adolescents with perinatal HIV infection Lynne Mofenson & Mark Cotton The challenges of success Adolescents with perinatal HIV infection Lynne Mofenson & Mark Cotton
Cross-section study Adolescents t/f 1999 – 2011 N = 45 Median age of transfer 18.1 years The Young & the Resistant HIV-Infected Adolescents Transfer to Adult Care St Justine, Montreal, Canada 10 Vd Linden D JPIDS 2012, Dec 19
Mode of transmission Mode of HIV transmissionn (%) Mother to child transmission32/45 (71%) Blood transfusion2/45 (4.4%) Sexual2/45 (4.4%) Unknown9/45 (20%) 11
12 Initial mono- or bi-therapy ART naive Initial cART
The young and the resilient 6 th HIV Pediatrics Workshop Same adolescents Doing well Not easy F Kakkar et al
Poorer virologic suppression in adolescents – AID for AIDS Nachega et al AIDS 2009; 51: 65-71
Adolescents and technology
Acknowledgements: Sam Waters, St. Mary’s Hospital, London Dimitri vd Linden – St. Luc, Brussels Michael Hislop & Leon Regensberg – Aid for AIDS, Medscheme