Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) associated mortality rate of children attending HIV/AIDS care in North West Ethiopia, 2009-2019.

A high rate of SAM associated mortality rate within short median (±SD) time to death was reported as compared with previous finding in Ethiopia. Seropositive children presenting with CD4 counts being below a threshold, World Health Organization Stages III and IV, and being nutritionally stunted during antiretroviral therapy initiation were at high risk of early mortality.