Table 1.

Characteristics of sites providing ART for children.

Cohort name and location	Main level of care provided	Type of clinic and payment	Target population	Most likely PMTCT intervention*	First year of paediatric ART provision	Number of children on ART
Harriet Shezi, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto	All levels	Public and research, Free ART	Children only	sdNVP to mother & infant	2001	1865
Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg	All levels	Public, Free ART	Children and pregnant women	sdNVP to mother & infant	1999	938
Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town	Tertiary	Public and research; Free ART	Children only	ZDV from 34 weeks gestation + sdNVP to mother & infant	2001	828
Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town	Tertiary	Public, Free ART	Adults and children, separate clinics	ZDV from 34 weeks gestation + sdNVP to mother & infant	2000	591
Khayelitsha Community Health Centre, Cape Town	Primary	Public, Free ART	Adults and children, separate clinics	ZDV from 34 weeks gestation + sdNVP to mother & infant	2001	650
Gugulethu Community Health Centre, Cape Town	Primary	Public and research, Free ART	Adults and children, separate clinics	ZDV from 34 weeks gestation + sdNVP to mother & infant	2001	209
McCord Hospital, Durban	Secondary	Government subsidized not for profit hospital, Small co-payment	Adults and children, combined clinics	sdNVP to mother & infant	2003	404
Total						5485

^*This is the PMTCT intervention available through the public health system within the province in which each site is located. It is not necessarily the intervention that each individual child attending that facility received, as individual program PMTCT regimens varied and mothers may have accessed antenatal care in other provinces/programs.