1. Mortality and associated factors after initiation of pediatric antiretroviral treatment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Author
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Annelies Van Rie, Nicole Shabani, Robert Colebunders, Ziya Gizlice, Andrew Edmonds, Frieda Behets, Steven Callens, Patricia Lelo, Faustin Kitetele, and Jean Lusiama
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Microbiology (medical) ,Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,HIV Infections ,Viral diseases ,Child Nutrition Disorders ,Pharmacotherapy ,Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ,Candidiasis, Oral ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Humans ,Africa, Central ,Risk factor ,Sida ,Child ,Children ,Causes of death ,Proportional Hazards Models ,Analysis of Variance ,biology ,AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections ,business.industry ,Proportional hazards model ,Malnutrition ,HIV ,Antiretrovirals ,Survival analysis ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Prognosis ,Shock, Septic ,Surgery ,AIDS ,Congo-Kinshasa ,Infectious Diseases ,El Niño ,Anti-Retroviral Agents ,Child, Preschool ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Democratic Republic of the Congo ,Mortality rates ,Female ,Human medicine ,business - Abstract
Objective: We aimed to describe factors associated with mortality among children receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART) at a pediatric hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Results: Two hundred ninety-nine children, =2 opportunistic infections before ART initiation, severe immunosuppression as defined by age-specific CD4 count or percentage criteria, hemoglobin
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- 2008