Table 1.

Baseline demographic, clinical, laboratory and medication-related characteristics of children on ART at Debre-Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia from March 2005 to April 2017 (n = 352)

Characteristics	Categories	Frequency	Percent (%)
Age	0–5 year	140	39.8
	5–10 year	154	43.7
	10–15 year	58	16.5
Sex	Male	179	50.9
	Female	173	49.1
Residence	Urban	313	88.9
	Rural	39	11.1
Parent status	Both parents alive	248	70.5
	Paternal and maternal orphan	80	22.7
	Double orphan	24	6.8
WHO clinical stage	Stage 1 and 2	275	78.1
	Stage 3 and 4	77	21.9
CD4 count	Below threshold	69	19.6
	Above threshold	283	80.4
Hemoglobin level	< 10 mg/dl	50	14.2
	≥ 10 mg/dl	302	85.8
Nutritional status	Underweight	82	22.3
	Normal	270	76.7
Ever taking cotrimoxazole preventive therapy	Yes	331	94.0
	No	21	6.0
Ever taking isoniazid prophylaxis therapy	Yes	110	31.2
	No	242	68.8
Months on care before ART	≤ 3 month	290	82.4
	> 3 months	62	17.6
ART adherence	Good	301	85.5
	Ever had fair and poor	51	14.5
Months on care after ART	≤ 6 month	56	15.9
	> 6 month	296	84.1

ART antiretroviral therapy, WHO World Health Organization