title: Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) survey and degree of malnutrition among children born to HIV infected mothers under the Prevention of Mother to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) Program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine morbidity experience, pattern of nutrition status and development of the children born to HIV infected mothers under the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Program compared to the national standard.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 2008, births given by mothers under PMTCT in five selected hospitals of Health Region 4 of Thailand between 2002 and 2006 were identified from the registered data and the medical records, were reviewed. Their homes were visited to collect the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 138 mothers and 143 children studied, nobody died. Forty-four were healthy 91 experienced mild episode of various infections and allergy within the past three months, one was admitted for pneumonia, two were HIV-positive, 53 were negative and the other 88 had no final blood tested In the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST), all parameters were minimal, less than 5%. Overall, the suspected delay development is around 15.4%. For nutritional status assessment by height for age (HFA), weight for age (WFA) and weight for height (WFH) reported a quarter (23.1%) was stunting whereas 12.6% were thin and 5.6% were wasting, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Among the study PMTCT children, serious morbidity was rare. Nutritional deficiency was more common than delayed development.
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand. hokjindee@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Usa
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hokjindee
authors.forename: Virasakdi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chongsuvivatwong
authors.forename: Apiradee
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Nannapat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pruphetkaew
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control*; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008403:Mass Screening; D009017:Morbidity; D009035:Mothers; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult