Risk factors for anaemia among HIV infected children attending care and treatment clinic at Muhimbili national hospital in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Tanzania Journal of Health Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Makubi, Abel N ^a   Mugusi, Ferdinand ^b   Magesa, Pius M ^a   Roberts, David ^c   Quaresh, Amrana ^d  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b MUHIMBILI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Children; HIV; Hospital; Risk factors; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN; MULTIVITAMIN; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIXED INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTECTION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS; COMPLICATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS;

ANEMIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84856289172     PISSN: 18216404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/thrb.v14i1.11     Document Type: Article

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