Global HIV mortality trends among children on antiretroviral treatment corrected for under‐reported deaths: an updated analysis of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS collaboration

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) projections of paediatric HIV prevalence and deaths rely on the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium for mortality estimates among children living with HIV (CHIV) receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). Previous estimates, based on data through 2014, may no longer be accurate due to expanded paediatric HIV care and treatment eligibility, and the possibility of unreported deaths in CHIV considered lost to follow‐up (LTFU). We therefore estimated all‐cause mortality and its trends in CHIV (<15 years old) on ART using extended and new IeDEA data.

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