Psychosocial Issues in Children and Adolescents With HIV Infection Evaluated With a World Health Organization Age-Specific Descriptor System

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonietta Giannattasio ◽  
Annunziata Officioso ◽  
Grazia Isabella Continisio ◽  
Giovanna Griso ◽  
Cinzia Storace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
World Health ◽  
Descriptor System ◽  
Psychosocial Issues ◽  
Health Organization

HIV: diagnosis and assessment

2019 ◽  
pp. 469-478
Keyword(s):  
Viral Load ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Undetectable Viral Load ◽  
World Health ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Hiv Diagnosis ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization has set a target to achieve by 2030 that 90% of people with HIV are aware of their diagnosis, 90% of those are on treatment, and 90% of these have an undetectable viral load. People with HIV who are not aware of their diagnosis are more likely to be diagnosed late with increased morbidity and mortality, and 50% of new transmissions are from people unaware of their status. This chapter describes the challenges in increasing testing and diagnosis, recommendations for HIV testing, and initial assessment and management of those newly diagnosed with HIV infection.

scholarly journals Limitations of the Current World Health Organization Growth References for Children and Adolescents

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (4_suppl5) ◽  
pp. S175-S188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youfa Wang ◽  
Luis A. Moreno ◽  
Benjamin Caballero ◽  
Tim J. Cole
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
World Health ◽  
Growth References ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals Modern view on the problem of children and adolescents physical development assesment

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 1015-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
L D Izotova
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
The Body ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Children Under 5

The aim of work was to compile information on current international approaches to children and adolescents physical development assessment. Physical development is an important health indicator of children and adolescents, which reflects individual sexual and constitutional features, different climatic and socio-economic living conditions. Currently different of methods are used to assess children physical development. In 2006, the World Health Organization introduced a reference growth rates of children under 5 years («Child Growth Standards for children»), which show how children should grow while ensuring proper care, feeding and healthy environment. These standards make it possible to assess the physical development of children all over the world, regardless of ethnicity, feeding type and socioeconomic status. «WHO Growth Reference 2007» standards are developed for children from 5 to 19 years. It is recommended to evaluate nutritional status from 2 years of age by calculating the body mass index standard deviation score (SDS) on the standard for the corresponding age and sex. The program for personal computers «WHO Anthro» was developed for individual assessment of children under 5 years anthropometric indicators using both parametric (sigma - Z-score determination) and nonparametric (centile - percentile determination) methods, and the program «WHO AnthroPLUS» - for children and adolescents over 5 years. The programs allow to asses physical development easily and conveniently in practical application and to visualize the results. The World Health Organization international reference standards allow to evaluate physical development pathology, including nutritional status, according to international criteria for malnutrition, overweight and obesity, short and tall stature diagnosis. Adoption of the World Health Organization standards unifies the methodology for assessing the children and adolescents physical development, will make comparable the results obtained at different time, in different countries and regions of the world.

Ways to solve issues related to adolescent motherhood (scientific review)

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Pavel P. Shcherbinin ◽  
Nelli Yu. Bolshakova ◽  
Daria L. Simonova ◽  
Valeriia S. Malchikova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Young Mothers ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization, arguing for the need to invest in the health and development of adolescents, notes that its work helps to improve the health and well-being of millions of adolescents who experience problems such as depression, anemia, HIV infection, promotes the introduction of a healthy lifestyle, prevention of health problems that may occur in adulthood (for example, cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer caused by low levels of physical activity and smoking, problems originating in adolescence). Investments in adolescent health will also prevent problems in the next generations, in particular, such as prematurity and low body weight in children born to very young mothers. Among the significant factors contributing to the achievement of low childbearing activity in adolescence, the low level of abortions and HIV infection among young people, the fact was especially emphasized that it is in these countries that parents and the public positively perceive the sexuality of young people, and sexual relations are considered a logical and natural continuation of a long-term relationship between a young man and a girl, a serious component of emotionally healthy adulthood. The sexual behavior of adolescents in developed European countries is primarily a matter of harmonious development and public health. Most adults do not consider adolescent sex an issue as long as the “rules of protected sex” are maintained. Experts of the World Health Organization, in cooperation with UNICEF headquarters, have developed an orientation program “Adolescent Health”. The presence of the phenomena of adolescent pregnancy and fertility, the negative consequences that may accompany these phenomena and the possibility of reducing their level indicate the need to develop appropriate programs, among which early pregnancy prevention programs should take an important place. Social readaptation of young mothers should take into account the following aspects: social, psycho-correctional, medical, career guidance, legal.

Dementia due to HIV disease

2012 ◽  
pp. 384-386
Author(s):  
Mario Maj
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
American Academy ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Aids Dementia Complex ◽  
World Health ◽  
Motor Disorder ◽  
Dementia Syndrome ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
American Academy Of Neurology

The first description of a syndrome consisting of cognitive, motor, and behavioural disturbances in patients with AIDS was published in 1986. The syndrome was named ‘AIDS dementia complex’. In 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the term ‘HIV-associated dementia’, pointing out that subclinical or mild cognitive and/or motor dysfunctions without impairment of performance in daily living activities cannot be subsumed under the term ‘dementia’. The expression ‘mild cognitive/motor disorder’ was proposed for those conditions. The same distinction was made in 1991 by the American Academy of Neurology, which identified an ‘HIV-associated dementia complex’ and an ‘HIV-associated minor cognitive/motor disorder’. The present chapter focuses on the dementia syndrome associated with HIV infection.

Evaluation of the World Health Organization staging system for HIV infection and disease in Ethiopia: association between clinical stages and laboratory markers

AIDS ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Kassa ◽  
Tobias F. Rinke de Wit ◽  
Ermias Hailu ◽  
Mulu Girma ◽  
Tsehaynesh Messele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Staging System ◽  
World Health ◽  
Laboratory Markers ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinical Stages ◽  
Health Organization
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