Från barnklinik till vuxenklinik via specialmottagning. Erfarenheter av HIV-smittade unga som varit sjuka hela
sitt liv
Engelsk titel: From pediatric to adult clinic through a transition clinic. Experiences of HIV-infected young people who have
been ill all their lives
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Författare:
Westling, Katarina
;
Belfrage, Erik
;
Naver, Lars
;
Vesterbacka, Jan
Email: katarina.westling@karolinska.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 5
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 14068000
Sammanfattning
Transition of adolescents with a chronic disease from the pediatric to the adult clinic is often problematic, and can lead to difficulties for the young patient and his/her family. A real problem for the HIV infected adolescent, is adherence to medication, in order to prevent resistance to antiretroviral treatment. We have therefore set up a transition clinic for young patients with HIV that is held one evening every month. It is run by a multi-disciplinary care team including physicians, nurses and counselors from both infectious diseases and pediatric clinics and sexologists. We have run this clinic for five years and despite difficulties due to immigration, experience of parental death, and adolescence problems, 90% of the young HIV patients who have been on antiretroviral treatment for more than 6 months have viral suppression (i.e. HIV RNA <50 copies/ml). The treatment results for these young patients with HIV are similar to those in the adult Swedish population with HIV.