Open Access<p>Incidence and Predictors of Treatment Failure Among Children Receiving First-Line Antiretroviral Treatment in General Hospitals of Two Zones, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2019</p>
Author(s) -
Migbar Sibhat,
Mekuria Kassa,
Haftom Gebrehiwot
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-9927
DOI - 10.2147/phmt.s243656
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , antiretroviral treatment , pediatrics , demography , antiretroviral therapy , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , family medicine , viral load , mathematics , sociology , geometry
Despite many efforts undertaken to control the human immunodeficiency virus epidemic, it remains to be the major global public health challenge. With expanding access to pediatric antiretroviral therapy, children are more likely to experience treatment failure. All previous studies conducted in Ethiopia estimated treatment failure using only clinical and CD4 criteria. Thus, the ART failure rate is expected to be underestimated in our country.