Pui-Ying Iroh Tam, James Chirombo, Marc Henrion, Laura Newberry, Ivan Mambule, Dean Everett, Charles Mwansambo, Nigel Cunliffe, Neil French, Robert S Heyderman, Naor Bar-Zeev
OBJECTIVE: Assess characteristics of clinical pneumonia after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), by HIV exposure status, in children hospitalised in a governmental hospital in Malawi. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We evaluated 1139 children ≤5 years old hospitalised with clinical pneumonia: 101 HIV-exposed, uninfected (HEU) and 1038 HIV-unexposed, uninfected (HUU). Median age was 11 months (IQR 6-20), 59% were male, median mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) was 14 cm (IQR 13-15) and mean weight-for-height z score was -0...
February 8, 2022: BMJ Open