Open Access<p>Undernutrition Among HIV-Positive Adolescents on Antiretroviral Therapy in Southern Ethiopia</p>
Author(s) -
Hailegebriel Shiferaw,
Samson Gebremedhin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-318X
DOI - 10.2147/ahmt.s264311
Subject(s) - medicine , malnutrition , confidence interval , anthropometry , odds ratio , logistic regression , demography , public health , epidemiology , cross sectional study , pediatrics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , antiretroviral therapy , viral load , immunology , nursing , pathology , sociology
Adolescents living with HIV are vulnerable to undernutrition secondary to elevated nutritional needs imposed by growth spurt and HIV-infection. Yet, in low-income countries, evidence on the epidemiology of undernutrition among adolescents living with HIV is scarce. We assessed the prevalence and predictors of stunting and thinness among adolescents receiving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in Hawassa city, Southern Ethiopia.