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Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 Aug 15;60(5):503–510. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e318256b4f8

Table 5.

Mortality by surveillance study period among all paediatric admissions (2005–2011), by HIV-infection status, percentage deaths of HIV-infected infants <6 months and percentage HIV-related deaths

	18 April –15 May 2005 (n=565)	1 Oct – 31 Dec 2007 (n=1510)	1 Aug 2010 – 31 Jan 2011 (n=397)
Mortality rate overall (%)	63/565 (11.2)	91/1510 (6.0)	18/429 (4.2)
Mortality in HIV-uninfected (%)^#	16/350 (4.6)	38/1064 (3.6)^*	7/308 (2.3)
Mortality in HIV-infected (%)^##	43/179 (24.0)	53/440 (12.0)	9/73 (12.3)
Deaths in HIV-infected children <6 months by all deaths <6 months	18/27 (66.7)	28/40 (70.0)	4/9 (44.4)
% of all deaths that were HIV-related	43/63 (68.3)	53/91 (58.2)	9/18 (50.0)

Not significantly different across time (p>0.10)

^##

P=0.001 for difference over time (chi-squared test for trend)

This number includes deaths in HIV-uninfected, HIV-exposed unknown and HIV-unknown children.