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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 2:

Detailed maternal HIV status of eligible and HIV positive children, and HIV prevalence among children, by country: Population-based HIV Impact Assessment, 2015 -- 2017

Country
Lesotho Malawi Namibia Eswatini Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Overall
Number of eligible children age 0–14 by maternal HIV status
HIV positive mother* 942 (19%) 1,014 (10%) 740 (9%) 876 (22%) 386 (4%) 457 (4%) 1,020 (9%) 1,001 (10%) 6,436 (9%)
HIV negative mother* 1,698 (35%) 5,841 (58%) 3,297 (42%) 1,467 (37%) 7,203 (69%) 7,985 (74%) 6,920 (59%) 4,851 (51%) 39,262 (57%)
Unknown maternal HIV status* 2,230 (46%) 3,138 (31%) 3,850 (49%) 1,654 (41%) 2,863 (27%) 2,351 (22%) 3,706 (32%) 3,747 (39%) 23,539 (34%)
 Mother non-response/refusal 312 (14%) 1,496 (48%) 627 (16%) 239 (14%) 740 (26%) 259 (11%) 1,595 (43%) 312 (14%) 6,107 (26%)
 Mother not in household 1,522 (68%) 1,377 (44%) 2,940 (76%) 1,221 (74%) 1,813 (63%) 1,838 (78%) 1,715 (46%) 1,522 (68%) 14,844 (63%)
 Mother deceased 379 (17%) 253 (8%) 250 (7%) 171 (10%) 284 (10%) 216 (9%) 384 (10%) 379 (17%) 2,407 (10%)
 Insufficient information 17 (0.8%) 12 (0.4%) 33 (0.9%) 23 (1%) 26 (0.9%) 38 (2%) 12 (0.3%) 17 (0.8%) 181 (0.8%)
HIV positive children age 0–14 by maternal HIV status
HIV positive mother 38 (45%) 57 (58%) 33 (45%) 52 (54%) 27 (60%) 29 (56%) 66 (70%) 52 (43%) 354 (53%)
HIV negative mother 1 (1.2%) 5 (5.1%) 2 (2.7%) 1 (1.0%) 2 (4.4%) 2 (3.8%) 4 (4.2%) 2 (1.7%) 19 (2.9%)
Unknown maternal HIV status 45 (54%) 37 (37%) 39 (53%) 43 (45%) 16 (36%) 21 (40%) 25 (26%) 66 (55%) 292 (49%)
 Mother non-response/refusal 1 (2%) 3 (8%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (13%) 1 (5%) 4 (16%) 1 (2%) 12 (4%)
 Mother not in household 22 (49%) 17 (46%) 23 (59%) 27 (63%) 4 (25%) 13 (62%) 13 (52%) 30 (45%) 149 (51%)
 Mother deceased 22 (49%) 17 (46%) 16 (41%) 16 (37%) 10 (63%) 6 (29%) 8 (32%) 35 (53%) 130 (45%)
 Insufficient information 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (5%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (0.3%)
HIV prevalence among children age 0–14 by maternal HIV status1 (%, CI)
HIV positive mother 4.5 (3.0 – 5.9) 8.0 (5.6 – 10.5) 5.00 (2.9 – 7.1) 7.1 (5.0 – 9.1) 8.8 (4.9 – 12.7) 5.1 (3.0 – 7.1) 7.9 (5.8 – 10.0) 6.3 (4.4 – 8.2) 7.1 (6.0 – 8.2)
HIV negative mother 0.05 (0.0 – 0.1) 0.1 (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 (0.0 – 0.08)
Unknown maternal HIV status 2.8 (1.8 – 3.8) 3.0 (1.9 – 4.2) 1.2 (0.7 – 1.6) 3.1 (2.2 – 3.9) 0.4 (0.2 – 0.7) 1.0 (0.4 – 1.7) 1.5 (0.8 – 2.2) 2.9 (1.9 – 3.9) 1.3 (1.0 – 1.5)
 Mother non-response/refusal 0.8 (0.0 – 2.4) 1.3 (0.0 – 2.9) - - 0.2 (0.0 – 0.6) 0.9 (0.0 – 2.9) 1.1 (0.01 – 2.2) 0.5 (0.0 – 1.6) 0.6 (0.2 – 1.1)
 Mother not in household 1.8 (1.0 – 2.6) 2.3 (0.8 – 3.8) 0.9 (0.5 – 1.3) 2.4 (1.4 – 3.4) 0.1 (0.0 – 0.3) 0.7 (0.1 – 1.2) 1.0 (0.3 – 1.7) 1.8 (0.7 – 3.0) 0.8 (0.5 – 1.1)
 Mother deceased 7.4 (4.0 – 10.8) 10.6 (4.8 – 16.3) 5.9 (2.7 – 9.2) 10.2 (5.3 – 15.1) 3.0 (0.9 – 5.0) 3.8 (0.4 – 7.2) 3.9 (0.8 – 7.0) 9.4 (6.1 – 12.8) 5.2 (3.8 – 6.6)
 Insufficient information - - - - - 1.1 (0.0 – 3.3) - - 0.7 (0.0 – 2.0)
*

Percentages among all eligible children in child-selected households

Percentages among those with unknown maternal status

Percentages among all HIV positive children

1

Weighted estimates including non-response adjustment and post-stratification, calculated with jackknife replicate weights.