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. 2018 Mar 1;15(3):e1002514. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002514

Table 1. Profile of geographic regions included in the CIPHER global cohort adolescent analysis (N = 38,187 adolescents).

Region Countries included Number of study centers Number of adolescents (%) Observation period Year of birth median (IQR) Duration of adolescent follow-up (from age 10 years) median (IQR) years
Europe Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom 153 3,054 (8.0) 1982–2015 1995 (1991–1999) 6.4 (3.6–8.0)
North America United States of America 117 1,032 (2.7) 1991–2014 1994 (1992–1996) 3.7 (2.0–5.4)
South and Southeast Asia Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam 73 2,902 (7.6) 1994–2014 2001 (1999–2002) 2.5 (1.2–4.4)
South America and the Caribbean Argentina, Brazil, Haiti, Honduras 6 903 (2.4) 1990–2015 1998 (1995–2000) 5.0 (2.7–7.5)
Sub-Saharan Africa Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe 565 30,296 (79.3) 1996–2015 2000 (1999–2002) 2.1 (0.9–3.8)
Total 914 38,187 1982–2015 2000 (1998–2002) 3.1 (1.5–5.2)

Abbreviations: CIPHER, Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research; IQR, interquartile range.