Growth in Virologically Suppressed HIV-Positive Children on Antiretroviral Therapy: Individual and Population-level

Olivia Keiser1, Nello Blaser, Mary-Ann Davies

  • 1From the *Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland; †School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa; ‡Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems, KU Leuven, Belgium; §Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; ¶Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Harriet Shezi Children's Clinic, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; ‖Tygerberg Academic Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa; **Empilweni Services and Research Unit (Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg) and University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; ††Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa; ‡‡Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) South Africa, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa; §§Sinikithemba Clinic, McCord Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa; and ¶¶Kheth'Impilo, Cape Town, South Africa.

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