Скачать или смотреть Microneedle Patches for HIV Treatment in Children | Hannah Wellington

For many families and caregivers, giving a child daily HIV medication is a stressful, complicated task. It can lead to the child missing treatment doses, which can have serious consequences. Hannah Wellington, a PhD candidate at WITS University, is trying to solve this issue.

Her focus is on developing sustained-release, antiretroviral (ARV)-loaded transdermal microneedles for the treatment of pediatric HIV. Each patch is designed to provide slow-release ARVs, reducing treatment from a daily struggle to just one or two applications per week.

She is supervised by Prof Yahya Choonara, who holds the DSTI-NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Pharmaceutical Biomaterials and Polymer-Engineered Drug Delivery Technologies.