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The Prevalence of Disclosure of HIV Status to HIV-Infected Children in Western Kenya
Author(s) -
Matthew Turissini,
Winstone Nyandiko,
Samuel Ayaya,
Irene Marete,
Ann Mwangi,
Victor Chemboi,
Lucy Warui,
Rachel Vreeman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2048-7207
pISSN - 2048-7193
DOI - 10.1093/jpids/pit024
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , referral , odds ratio , confidence interval , pediatrics , depression (economics) , family medicine , demography , social stigma , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
As antiretroviral therapy (ART) allows the world's 2.3 million human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children to grow and thrive, these children need to be informed of their HIV status. Neither the prevalence of disclosure to children nor its impact has been evaluated in most resource-limited settings.

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