Characteristics of HIV-Infected Children at Enrollment into Care and at Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in Central Africa.

Adebola A AdedimejiAndrew EdmondsDonald HooverQiuhu ShiJean d'Amour SinayobyeMartin NduwimanaPatricia LeloDenis NashKathryn AnastosMarcel Yotebieng
Published in: PloS one (2017)
Although HIV-infected children ≤24 months of age accounted for half of all children enrolling in care in our cohort during 2012-13, they represented less than a quarter of all those who were initiated on ART during the same period. Further research is needed to identify barriers to timely diagnosis, linkage to care, and initiation of ART among children with HIV infection.