Mortality Among Children Under Five Years of Age Living With HIV on Antiretroviral Treatment From HIV Case Surveillance Data, Malawi, 2022
From Malawi's HIV case surveillance, we report clinical characteristics and outcomes of 4461 children living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment <5 years old from January to December, 2022. Among the 4% of children living with HIV who died, 43% were asymptomatic, 35% had advanced or severe symptoms at the time of HIV diagnosis and 50% died within 6 months of receiving an HIV diagnosis.
Authors
- Susan Hrapcak
- Dumbani Kayira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7772-8070)
- Monita R. Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4840-1914)
- Melissa Arons (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2442-3692)
- Misheck Luhanga
- Howard Kress
- Kelly Chapman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5417-9400)
- Nickolas T. Agathis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2641-4888)
- George Mtonga
Institutions
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (UG)
- Center for Global Health (US)
- Epidemic Intelligence Service (US)
- Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Published
- 2024-08-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0000000000004491
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention