Africa;

Brian Eley, Red Cross Children\'s Hospital and the School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;

Janet Giddy, McCord Hospital, Durban, South Africa;

Harry Moultrie, Institute for Sexual Reproductive Health, HIV and Related Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;

Margaret Pascoe, Newlands Clinic, Harare, Zimbabwe;

Helena Rabie, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa;

Karl Technau, Empilweni Service and Research Unit, Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;

Gilles Van Cutsem, Khayelitsha ART Programme, Médecins Sans Frontières and School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;

Paula Vaz, Paediatric Day Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique;

Ralf Weigel, Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi;

Robin Wood, Gugulethu Community Health Centre and Desmond TutuPaediatric HIV Clinics (Empilweni Service and Research Unit, Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital), Johannesburg, South Africa; Gilles van Cutsem, Khayelitsha ART Programme and Médecins sans Frontières, Cape Town, South Africa; Paula Vaz, Paediatric Day Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique; Ralf Weigel, Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi; Robin Wood, Gugulethu and Masiphumelele ART Programmes, Cape Town, South Africa.

**Central team:**Matthias Egger, Beatrice Fatzer, Claire Graber and Olivia Keiser, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Andrew Boulle, Morna Cornell, Mary-Ann Davies, Nicola Maxwell, Landon Myer and Anna Grimsrud, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

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TREAT Asia is a programme of The Foundation for AIDS Research, amfAR. The TREAT Asia Paediatric HIV Observational Database (TApHOD) is supported in part by grants