ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Magnitude and predictors of antiretroviral treatment failure among HIV-infected children in Fiche and Kuyu hospitals, Oromia region, Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study Seid Yassin1 & Gebremedhin Beedemariam Gebretekle2 1
International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Department of Pharmaceutics and Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Keywords ART, clinical, Ethiopia, HIV/AIDS, immunologic, pediatrics, treatment failure Correspondence Gebremedhin Beedemariam Gebretekle, Department of Pharmaceutics and Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Tel: +251-912198210; Fax: +251115-505980; E-mails:
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Funding Information No funding information provided. Received: 1 December 2016; Accepted: 12 December 2016 Pharma Res Per, 5(1), 2017, e00296, doi: 10.1002/prp2.296 doi: 10.1002/prp2.296
Abstract The objective of the study was to assess the magnitude and predictors of firstline antiretroviral treatment failure among HIV-infected children. A retrospective cohort study was conducted between January 2006 and December 2015. All pediatric patients of