Clinico-Social and Immunological Profile of Antiretroviral Naïve Children Living With HIV In Tertiary Care Hospital, Delhi

Abstract

introduction: This study was undertaken to assess the clinical profile of children living with HIV at the time of their enrolment in an ART centre in Delhi. The study also attempts to understand association between clinical staging and immunological profile (CD4 count/percentage) in HIV infected children. The findings of this study may help policy makers to plan better health care of CLHIV in resource constrained country like India. The Objectives of the study were to assess the baseline clinico-social and immunological profile of HIV positive children before the start of Antiretroviral Therapy, to study clinicosocial and morbidity profile of HIV positive children at the time of their enrolment in ART centre and to study the association between immunodeficiency and clinical staging of CLHIV.