Neuropsychiatric profile of a cohort of perinatally infected HIV positive children after one year of antiretroviral medication

The Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) era in the mid-nineties signalled a dramatic change in the long-term outcome of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Many children have shown significant neurologic benefit, and in particular, a decline in the incidence of HIV encephalopathy. As increasing numbers of children have survived into adolescence and early adulthood new challenges have arisen, such as the detection and characterization of milder forms of HIV-associated neurocognitive deficits in children previously thought to be asymptomatic...

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Nassen, René

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Joska, John
• Ward, Catherine L

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12158

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12158