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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2021 Aug 1;87(Suppl 1):S43–S51. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002704

Table 1:

Number of eligible child respondents, response rates, and number of HIV positive children, by country and maternal HIV status: Population-based HIV Impact Assessment, 2015 -- 2017

Country
Lesotho Malawi Namibia Eswatini Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Total

Total households selected 10,892 14,267 12,716 6,417 16,198 13,435 13,440 15,009 102,374
Total child-selected households 5,443 7,132 6,358 3,206 5,340 7,926 6,733 7,511 49,649
Total child-selected households who responded 4,445 4,580 4,059 2,599 3,336 5,809 3,561 5,149 33,538
Total rostered children age 0–14 9,866 19,964 15,223 7,636 31,573 30,290 23,272 19,082 156,926
 HIV positive or deceased mother 2,539 2,459 1,937 2,098 2,146 2,113 2,761 2,947 19,000
 HIV unknown status mother 3,884 5,784 7,000 2,821 7,747 7,230 6,639 6,558 47,663
 HIV negative mother 3,463 11,721 6,286 2,717 21,680 20,947 13,872 9,557 90,243
Eligible children in child-selected households 4,870 9,993 7,887 3,997 10,452 10,793 11,646 9,599 69,237
 HIV positive or deceased mother 27% 13% 13% 26% 6% 6% 12% 15% 13%
 HIV unknown status mother 38% 29% 46% 37% 25% 20% 29% 34% 31%
 HIV negative mother 35% 58% 42% 37% 69% 74% 59% 51% 57%
Children with blood test results (response rate) 3,966 (87%) 6,166 (66%) 6,761 (91%) 3,372 (89%) 9,616 (95%) 10,345 (97%) 8,015 (79%) 7,032 (83%) 55,273 (80%)
 HIV positive or deceased mother 90% 78% 95% 92% 97% 95% 85% 88% 84%
 HIV unknown status mother 84% 47% 89% 87% 89% 96% 63% 74% 66%
 HIV negative mother 88% 72% 91% 90% 96% 98% 83% 86% 86%
HIV prevalence among children age 0–141 (%, CI) 2.1 (1.5 – 2.6) 1.5 (1.1 – 1.9) 1.0 (0.8 – 1.3) 2.8 (2.2 – 3.4) 0.4 (0.2 – 0.6) 0.5 (0.3 – 0.8) 1.2 (0.9 – 1.4) 1.6 (1.2 – 2.0) 0.8 (0.7 – 0.9)
 HIV positive or deceased mother1 5.3 (3.8 – 6.8) 8.5 (5.9 – 11.0) 5.2 (3.6 – 6.9) 7.6 (5.7 – 9.4) 6.3 (3.7 – 8.9) 4.6 (2.8 – 6.3) 6.9 (5.2 – 8.7) 7.2 (5.5 – 9.0) 6.5 (5.6 – 7.5)
 HIV unknown status mother1 1.7 (0.9 – 2.5) 2.0 (0.9 – 3.2) 0.8 (0.4 – 1.2) 2.2 (1.3 – 3.1) 0.2 (0.0 – 0.3) 0.7 (0.2 – 1.2) 1.0 (0.5 – 1.6) 1.7 (0.7 – 2.8) 0.8 (0.5, 1.0)
 HIV negative mothers1 0.05 (0.0 – 0.1) 0.11 (0.0 – 0.2) 0.06 (0.0 – 0.1) 0.08 (0.0 – 0.2) 0.01 (0.0 – 0.03) 0.07 (0.0 – 0.2) 0.05 (0.0 – 0.1) 0.05 (0.0 – 0.1) 0.05 (0.01, 0.08)
 Relative Sampling Error for overall prevalence 13% 13% 13% 11% 21% 20% 11% 12% 6.5%
 Number of children tested negative for HIV 3,882 6,067 6,687 3,276 9,571 10,293 7,920 6,912 54,608
Number of HIV-positive children 84 99 74 96 45 52 95 120 665
 HIV positive or deceased mother 60 (71%) 74 (75%) 49 (66%) 68 (71%) 37 (82%) 35 (67%) 74 (78%) 87 (73%) 484 (73%)
 HIV unknown status mother 23 (27%) 20 (20%) 23 (31%) 27 (28%) 6 (13%) 15 (29%) 17 (18%) 31 (26%) 162 (24%)
 HIV negative mother 1 (1%) 5 (5%) 2 (3%) 1 (1%) 2 (4%) 2 (4%) 4 (4%) 2 (2%) 19 (3%)
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Weighted estimates including non-response adjustment and post-stratification, calculated with jackknife replicate weights.