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Undernutrition among HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: antiretroviral therapy alone is not enough

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, November 2011
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Title
Undernutrition among HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: antiretroviral therapy alone is not enough
Published in
BMC Public Health, November 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-11-869
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Authors

Bruno F Sunguya, Krishna C Poudel, Keiko Otsuka, Junko Yasuoka, Linda B Mlunde, David P Urassa, Namala P Mkopi, Masamine Jimba

Abstract

The prevalence of HIV/AIDS has exacerbated the impact of childhood undernutrition in many developing countries, including Tanzania. Even with the provision of antiretroviral therapy, undernutrition among HIV-positive children remains a serious problem. Most studies to examine risk factors for undernutrition have been limited to the general population and ART-naive HIV-positive children, making it difficult to generalize findings to ART-treated HIV-positive children. The objectives of this study were thus to compare the proportions of undernutrition among ART-treated HIV-positive and HIV-negative children and to examine factors associated with undernutrition among ART-treated HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Tanzania, United Republic of 2 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Botswana 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 252 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 53 21%
Student > Postgraduate 27 10%
Student > Bachelor 26 10%
Researcher 20 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 6%
Other 44 17%
Unknown 73 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 73 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 37 14%
Social Sciences 14 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 2%
Other 26 10%
Unknown 89 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2011.
All research outputs
#7,101,193
of 22,656,971 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,438
of 14,737 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,024
of 125,240 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#89
of 190 outputs
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