The long-term impact of HIV/AIDS on socio-economic status: a comparative analysis of households headed by HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals in Western Kenya.

HIV/AIDS is known to have adverse effects on individual and family socio-economic status due to the loss of productive time and over-expenditure in treatment. However, empirical data on how HIV/AIDS affects households' socio-economic status are insufficient. We linked socio-economic data from a Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) that implements an HIV/AIDS Longitudinal bio-behavioural survey (LBBS) to understand the long-term impact of HIV/AIDS on households' socio-economic status between 2010 and 2018.

Causes of death in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children aged under-five years in western Kenya.

Objectives: Describe the causes of death among infants and children less than 5 years stratified by HIV status.

Design: Cross-sectional analysis of causes of death ascertained through minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) in the Kenya Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance site.

Methods: We included decedents aged 28 days to less than 5 years, whose death was reported within 36 h, underwent MITS, and had HIV test results and causes of death determined.