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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2010 May 14;15(7):833–841. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02539.x

Table 1.

Descriptive summary of HIV-infected and HIV-exposed pediatric populationsin USAID-AMPATH clinics*

HIV-exposed at
enrolment
N=10,404
N Events LTFU Rate
per 100 CY
HIV-infected at
enrolment
N=3106
N Events LTFU Rate
per 100
CY

Sex n=10,404 n=3106
Male 5125 (49.3%) 247 38.8 1,513 (48.7%) 263 13.7
Female 5279 (50.7%) 297 47.1 1,593 (51.3%) 289 14.4

Age in years*(me-
dian, IQR**)
n=10,404
0.25 (0.10,1.14)
- - n=3106
5.51 (3.44,8.54)
- -
≤ Median Age 5426 (52%) 186 311.9 1554 (50%) 267 17.8
> Median Age 5158 (48%0 358 28.7 1552 (50%) 285 9.3

Ever received food
supplementation
n=10,404 n=3106
Yes 331 (3.2%) 8 10.4 143 (4.6%) 32 11.1
No 10,073 (96.8%) 536 45.0 2963 (95.4%) 520 14.3

Ever received cART n=10,404 n=3106
Yes 2150 (20.7%) 52 12.4 1,776 (57.2%) 291 11.3
No 8254 (79.3%) 492 58.0 1330 (42.8%) 261 19.3

CD4% *
(median, IQR)
n=1750
19 (12,26)
- - n=2321
17 (10,26)
- -

Severely immune-
suppressed *
Yes 880 (50.3%) 11 4.7 1175 (50.6%) 92 8.9
No 870 (49.7%) 26 6.1 1146 (49.4%) 135 5.0

Weight for height
Z-score *
(median, IQR**)
n=533

−0.58 (−1.71,0.71)
n=2391

−0.76 (−1.66,0.09)
Severely low
 (Z≤−3.0)
36 (7%) 6 5.8 160 (7%) 29 10.2
Moderately se-
 vere to normal
 (Z>−3.0)
497 (93%) 109 13.4 2231 (93%) 374 11.2

CDC Clinical Stage* n=9753 n= 2,918
A/N 8318 (86.9%) 1715 25.7 1,683(57.7%) 285 12.6
B/C 1255 (13.1%) 337 12.2 1,235 42.3%) 360 13.5

Year of enrolment n=10,404 n=3106
<2005 766 (7.4%) 581 28.6 316 (10.2%) 172 16.4
2005-2006 3695 (35.5%) 1286 19.7 1084 (34.9%) 359 13.8
≥2007 5943 (57.1%) 827 16.9 1706 (54.9%) 235 13.3

Orphan status at
enrolment
n=8354 n=2,559
Orphan 916 (11.0%) 260 17.1 1085 (42.4%) 250 12.8
Non-orphan 7438 (89.0%) 1547 19.3 1,474 (57.6%) 307 15.0

Clinic location n=10,404 n=3106
Urban 5535 (53.2%) 1608 21.7 1,590 (51.2%) 362 13.4
Rural 4869 (46.8%) 1086 18.0 1,516 (48.8%) 404 15.0
*

Denotes enrolment data

**

IQR=interquartile range