High Unreported Mortality in Children and Youth (<25 Years) Living With HIV Who Were Lost to Care From Antiretroviral Therapy Programs in Southern Africa: Results From a Multicountry Tracing Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antiretroviral therapy program mortality maybe underestimated if deceased patients are misclassified as lost.

Methods

We used two-stage inverse probability weighting to account for probability of being: sampled for tracing and found by the tracer.

Results

Among 680 children and youth aged <25 years on antiretroviral therapy who were lost and traced in Southern Africa between October 2017 and November 2019, estimated mortality was high at 9.1% (62/680). After adjusting for measured covariates and within-site clustering, mortality remained lower for young adults aged 20-24 years compared with infants aged <2 years [adjusted hazard ratio: 0.40 (95% confidence interval: 0.31 to 0.51)].

Conclusions

Our study confirms high unreported mortality in chi

SUBMITTER: Nyakato P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9646412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature