2014
DOI: 10.1016/s2222-1808(14)60499-0
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Profile of HIV infected children: A hospital based study at Eastern Nepal

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“…Presenting features of children with HIV infection in our study are almost similar and comparable to the findings of other studies [Merchant et al, 2001;Gomber et al, 2011;Poudel et al, 2014]. The majority of patients were presented with weight loss, prolonged fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, respiratory infection, and chronic diarrhea.…”
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“…Presenting features of children with HIV infection in our study are almost similar and comparable to the findings of other studies [Merchant et al, 2001;Gomber et al, 2011;Poudel et al, 2014]. The majority of patients were presented with weight loss, prolonged fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, respiratory infection, and chronic diarrhea.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…Although, high prevalence of tuberculosis was found in Zimbabwe (59%) and Bangladesh (23%) [Madani et al, 2004;Ferrand et al, 2007], we found lower frequency of this disease; it might be due to lower age of our population study. In this study similar to Poudel et al study, salmonella infections as well as streptococcal pneumonia and candida infections followed by tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections were the predominant opportunistic infection [Poudel et al, 2014].…”
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“…Majority i.e. 31.7% belonged to age group between 0-5 years, this also shares similarities with the other studies done in India and Nepal by Madhivan et al, Gomber et al and Poudel et al [9][10][11] The desired adherence level of >95% assessed by pill count was achieved in more than 90% of children in this study, similar results were seen in a study conducted by Anju S et al and Mehta K et al i.e. 95.3% and 90.9% respectively.…”
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confidence: 90%