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 |
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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.