Incidence and Predictors of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Children Who Received Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), Northwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Historical Cohorts Study 2009–2019

Table 1

Baseline sociodemographic characteristic of HIV positive children who received ART in selected public health facility, Northwest Ethiopia, 2020 (N = 721).

Variables	Categories	Frequency	Percent
Sex	Male	337	46.7
	Female	384	53.3
Age of children	≥5 years	78	10.8
	6–10	254	35.2
	11–15 years	389	53.9
HIV disclosure status of children	Disclosed	158	21.9
	Not disclosed	563	78.1
Age of caregivers	≤45 years	244	38.8
	<45 years	477	66.1
Resident	Urban	510	70.8
	Rural	211	29.3
Marital status of the caregiver	Single	115	15.9
	Married	498	69.1
	Divorced	82	11.4
	Widowed	26	3.6
Family size of caregivers	≤2	227	31.4
	3–5	462	64.1
	≥6	32	4.4
HIV status of caregivers	Positive	550	76.3
	Negative	91	12.6
	Unknown	80	11.1
Religions of caregivers	Orthodox	381	52.8
	Muslim	152	21.2
	Protestant	139	19.3
	Catholics	49	6.8
Occupational status of caregivers	Farmer	99	13.7
	Merchant	337	46.7
	Employer	124	17.2
	Laborer worker	161	22.3
Parental status of care children	Both alive	381	52.8
	Paternal orphan	135	18.2
	Maternal orphan	108	14.9
	Both orphaned	97	13.5