Trial reportAIDS (London, England)2019
Maternal HIV does not affect resiliency among uninfected/HIV exposed South African children from birth to 5 years of age.
Trial report in AIDS (London, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00996528 (Neighborhood Alcohol & HIV Prevention in South African Townships), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Neighborhood Alcohol & HIV Prevention in South African Townships (Philani)
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Where you live matters: Township neighborhood factors important to resilience among south African children from birth to 5 years of age.Preventive medicine · 2022Trial
- Review
- The multisystemic roots of South African child and youth resilience: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Leveraging HIV Care Infrastructures for Integrated Chronic Disease and Pandemic Management in Sub-Saharan Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Intergenerational Impact of a Slow Pandemic: HIV and Children.New directions for child and adolescent development · 2020Article
- From surviving to thriving: the role of resilience in meeting global HIV goals.AIDS (London, England) · 2019Article
- Effects of parenting classes and economic strengthening for caregivers on the cognition of HIV-exposed infants: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Zimbabwe.BMJ global health · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveExamine resiliency among a South African population cohort of children of mothers living with HIV (MLH) and mothers without HIV (MWOH) in low-income townships over the first 5 years of life.
designA cluster randomized controlled intervention trial evaluating child resiliency and the effects of home visiting in township neighborhoods from pregnancy through 5 years postbirth.
methodsThe population of pregnant women in 24 matched neighborhoods were recruited and randomized by neighborhood to a standard care condition (n = 594) or a paraprofessional home visiting intervention condition (n = 644). Mothers and children were assessed at 2 weeks, 6, 18, 36, and 60 months postbirth (92-84% follow-up; 10.2% mortality). Resilient children were identified based on consistently meeting global standards for growth, cognitive functioning, and behavior. Maternal HIV status (n = 354 MLH; n = 723 mothers without HIV MWOH), intervention condition, maternal risks, caretaking, sociodemographic characteristics, and neighborhood were examined as predictors of child resiliency over time using analysis of variance, chi-square analyses, and Fisher's exact tests, where appropriate.
resultsNone of HIV-seropositive children (n = 17) were resilient; 19% of 345 HIV-exposed but uninfected children of MLH were resilient, a rate very similar to the 16% among MWOH. Resiliency was significantly associated with lower income, food security, not having a live-in partner, and the absence of maternal risk (i.e., not being depressed, using alcohol, or being a victim of intimate partner violence). Being randomized to a home visiting intervention, maternal breastfeeding for at least 3 months and attending a preschool crèche were also unrelated to resiliency. Although matched pairs of neighborhoods had similar rates of resilient children, resiliency varied significantly by neighborhood with rates ranging from 9.5 to 27%.
conclusionWe set a new standard to define resiliency, as consistently recommended by theoreticians. Although seropositive children are not resilient, uninfected children of MLH are as resilient as their peers of MWOH. Typical protective factors (e.g., home visiting, breastfeeding, preschool) were unrelated to resiliency over the first 5 years of life.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov registration #NCT00996528.
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