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Article History

Received: 15 November 2024

Accepted: 7 July 2025

First Online: 2 October 2025

Declarations

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: The patient-related data presented here are based on retrospective deidentified information collected on a routine basis in sites participating in the IeDEA consortium. These data were approved for use by the local institutional review boards in each of the IeDEA countries included in the analysis and consent requirements were deferred to the local institutional review boards. As the patient-level data was collected from routine patient care, consent was not required from either parents/caregivers or from the child and youth participants.Due to the large number of participating sites in IeDEA, we are unable to provide all approving IRBs and ethical committees along with this submission at this time. We are able to provide the approvals for the East Africa region, which is the leading and coordinating site for this site assessment: Indiana University Institutional Review Board:—IRB# 1105005574'Regional East Africa International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Consortium'and—IRB # 1105005572'International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA), East Africa: Proposal for Data Extraction and Analysis for the Initial Projects'. The patient-related data presented here are based on retrospective deidentified information collected on a routine basis in sites participating in the IeDEA consortium. These data were approved for use by the local institutional review boards in each of the IeDEA countries included in the analysis and consent requirements were deferred to the local institutional review boards. As the patient-level data were collected from routine patient care, consent was not required. All sites and IeDEA regional coordinating centres also had Institutional Review Board approvals in place permitting the collection of site-level data for the survey.

: Not Applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.