International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics 2011

Virology Education is proud to announce the 3rd International workshop on HIV Pediatrics, which will be held in Rome, Italy on 15 & 16 July 2011, preceding the 6th International AIDS Society meeting.

While progress has been made in HIV research and the availability of new drugs among HIV-infected adults, there is a large group that does not profit optimally from the progress made and that is the group of infants and children infected with HIV. Mother to child HIV transmission, particularly through breastfeeding, continues to be a problem in developing countries.

As the facts below demonstrate, staggering numbers of children are affected by HIV:
- At the end of 2007, there were 2 million children living with HIV around the world.
- An estimated 370,000 children became newly infected with HIV in 2007.
- Of the 2 million people who died of AIDS during 2007, more than one in
seven were children.