Treatment Outcomes of HIV Infected Children After Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in Southwest China: An Observational Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of HIV infected children receiving antiviral treatment in Guangxi is increasing. Understanding factors and trends of mortality and attrition in HIV-infected children under antiretroviral therapy (ART) was an urgent need to improve treatment outcomes. This study aimed to estimate mortality and attrition rates and identify factors that were associated with mortality and attrition after ART initiation among children with HIV in Guangxi, China between 2004 and 2018.

Methods

Cohort study data were extracted from the National Free Antiretroviral Treatment Program (NFATP) database, which has standard guidelines for core treatment indicators and other data at all HIV/AIDS treatment facilities in Guangxi. A total of 901 HIV-infected children who have started ART

SUBMITTER: Zeng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9315248 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature