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AIDS Care
Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
Volume 32, 2020 - Issue 4
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Educational delays among children living with perinatally-acquired HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Pages 438-444 | Received 03 Apr 2019, Accepted 27 Jun 2019, Published online: 09 Jul 2019
 

ABSTRACT

Little is known about how growing up with HIV impacts educational outcomes in sub-Saharan African children. We evaluated if South African children living with HIV (CLWH) were in the appropriate school grade-for-age compared to uninfected control children. We observed higher rates of not being in the correct grade-for-age in CLWH compared with controls (OR 3.32, 95% CI: 2.07-5.34), adjusted for study site, sex, whether the child’s biological father was alive, and caregiver education. Initiation of ART before 6 months of age reduced but did not eliminate this association. Whether these associations are due to biological factors or other social and environmental determinants, and how best to support CLWH to achieve educational goals, warrants further investigation.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under Grant numbers HD 073977 and HD 073952.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: [Grant Number HD 073952,HD 073977].

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