COVID-19: What Paediatric HIV Programmes Need to Know
Webinar 2: Paediatric and Adolescent HIV Programme Delivery
On 28 May 2020, UNICEF's Children and AIDS Learning Collaborative held the second session in a new series of webinars on COVID-19, children, pregnant women and HIV.
The webinar covered:
- Scientific updates on COVID-19 and HIV co-infection
- Research on clinical outcomes in children, SARS CoV-2 infection and the emerging multi-system inflammatory syndrome
- Impacts on and programmatic adaptations of HIV and SRHR programmes
- Voices from health care providers at the frontline of the pandemic.
Speakers included:
Dr. Lynne Mofenson, Technical Research Advisor at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)
Maria Vivas Alicea, HIV/AIDS Specialist, UNICEF Lesotho
Shadrack Mutembei, Country Director and Shasha Mahkauta, Youth and Gender Coordinator, Help Lesotho
Moses Bwire, Executive Director, Peer-to-Peer Uganda (PEERU)
Violette Nabatte, PATA member; Paediatrian and Head of Paediatric and Adolescent Services, Mildmay Uganda Hospital
All presentations are available for download below.