Table 3.

Details of HIV-infected children who died after initiation of HAART.

Patient	Sex	Age at initiation of HAART, years	HAART regimena	Duration of HAART, weeks	History of AIDS-related illness before HAART	Diagnosis/cause of death	Baseline CD4 cell percentage (CD4 cell count, cells/mL)	Baseline plasma HIV RNA level, log10 copies/mL
1	M	1.6	NVP	4	None	Sepsis	5 (90)	5.83
2	M	4.7	NVP	4	Penicillium marneffei infection	Mycobacterium avium complex infection	0 (0)	ND
3	M	10.9	NVP	5	Disseminated Mycobacterium scrofulaceum infection	Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia	0 (0)	4.86
4	F	7.6	NVP	6	Bronchiectasis, P. marneffei infection	Pneumonia	1 (ND)	ND
5	F	9.7	NVP	6	Mycobacterium kansasii infection	Staphylococcus aureus septicemia	5 (65)	ND
6	M	1.1	EFV	6	Oral candidiasis, chronic diarrhea	Diarrhea/sepsis	9 (314)	4.80
7	M	3.3	EFV	7	CMV retinitis, cryptococcal men ingitis, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, intracranial mass (presumptive tuberculoma)	IRS (postcraniotomy intracranial hemorrhage)	1 (5)	5.33
8	M	0.6	NVP	9	CMV retinitis and colitis	IRS (CMV) presenting as myocarditis	11 (740)	5.88
9	M	13.6	EFV	12	None	Sepsis	1 (23)	4.82
10	M	8.3	EFV	21	P. marneffei infection, autoimmune hemolytic anemia and hepatitis	Salmonella septicemia	0 (4)	5.88
11	F	11.3	EFV	22	CMV retinitis, HIV nephropathy, enteropathy, and encephalopathy	IRS (herpes simplex) presenting as encephalitis	2 (12)	5.09
12	F	8.7	NVP	26	None	IRS (M. avium complex)	6 (44)	5.57
13	M	9.5	NVP	74	M. avium complex infection	Chylous ascites with Escherichia coli septicemia	0 (5)	5.02

NOTE. CMV, cytomegalovirus; EFV, efavirenz; IRS, immune reconstitution syndrome; ND, not done; NVP, nevirapine.

^a”NVP” denotes a regimen of nevirapine, stavudine, and lamivudine; “EFV” denotes a regimen of efavirenz, stavudine, and lamivudine.