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Table 2 Baseline characteristics at antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation of 2170 children.

From: 12-month mortality and loss-to-program in antiretroviral-treated children: The IeDEA pediatric West African Database to evaluate AIDS (pWADA), 2000-2008

Site

N

Girl (%)

Median Age (years) (IQR)

%AIDS or clinical stage IV (%Missing)

Initial ART regimen (%)

Median CD4 cell count (IQR)

Median CD4 percent (IQR)

%Immuno-supression* (%Missing)

%CTX

Status$ (%Missing)

Year of ART initiation

     

2NRTI+1NNRTI

2NRTI

+1 PI

Others

    

≤ 2004

2005

≥ 2006

UPEIV

71

46.5

4 (2-7)

24.3 (1.4)

0.0

100.0

0.0

291 (132-517)

8(5-12)

89.9 (2.8)

100.0 (1.4)

50.7

19.7

29.6

CEPREF

306

42.5

6 (3-9)

20.2 (1.6)

63.1

33.3

3.6

356 (106-728)

11 (6-16)

79.5 (15.4)

32.8 (0.3)

12.7

50.7

36.6

MTCT Plus

74

52.7

2 (1-4)

10.3 (21.6)

35.1

64.9

0.0

858 (437-1285)

18 (14-24)

57.7 (4.1)

89.7 (21.6)

41.9

23.0

35.1

CHU Yopougon

650

48.3

6(3-10)

0.5 (4.0)

46.0

53.5

0.5

445 (201-738)

14(7-21)

60.1 (14.5)

15.6 (0.6)

52.3

24.2

23.5

CIRBA

141

47.5

4 (2-7)

53.3 (5.1)

66.7

31.9

1.4

393 (227-947)

14 (6-20)

72.0 (46.8)

71.2 (48.2)

13.5

19.9

66.7

FAJARA

23

47.8

6 (4-12)

- (100.0)

82.6

13.0

4.3

305 (220-580)

15 (9-19)

50.0 (4.3)

- (100.0)

4.3

34.8

60.9

KBTH

128

47.7

6 (3-8)

3.9 (0.0)

96.9

0.0

3.1

332 (77-684)

11 (4-17)

65.6 (25.0)

93.8 (0.0)

11.7

51.6

36.7

Albert Royer

104

43.3

7 (4-10)

55.3 (1.0)

81.7

15.4

2.9

340 (31-610)

9 (4-15)

63.9 (41.3)

92.3 (0.0)

32.7

20.2

47.1

Gabriel Toure

673

40.4

4 (2-8)

30.4 (2.2)

75.2

23.0

1.8

335 (115-602)

-

55.8 (16.3)

- (100.0)

39.8

18.0

42.2

Total

2170

44.8

5 (2-9)

19.1 (13.2)

62.0

36.3

1.7

385 (142-691)

13 (7-19)

63.4 (18.3)

42.7 (36.2)

36.0

27.1

36.9

  1. IeDEA paediatric West Africa database (pWADA), 2000-2007.
  2. IQR: Interquartile range, NRTI: Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, NNRTI: Non nucleoside reverses transcriptase inhibitors,
  3. PI: protease inhibitors, KBTH: Korlebu Teaching Hospital, Accra, UPEIV: Hôpital d'Instruction des armées, Cotonou, CTX: Cotrimoxazole
  4. * According to WHO definition [4], $ at ART initiation