Does a pilot study of parent education intervention improve early childhood development among toddlers with sickle cell disease?
We report longitudinal results of the first home visitation program within the early childhood SCD population and show significant improvement in cognitive and EL development. Additionally, home environment was a significant predictor of cognitive development. Randomized controlled trials to test the impact of interventions targeting the home environment are warranted for this vulnerable population.
Although there is a tendency for partners of a similar age to be chosen and the average age of HIV-infected people in Australia is relatively old, suggesting that the epidemic may eventually age out depending on death rates, there seems to be sufficient cross-age mixing and high sexual mixing in younger age groups to sustain the HIV epidemic over the medium to long term.