Risk factors for mortality among Tanzanian infants and children

Table 2 Primary causes of child death among 307 children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

	Total, n (%)	Children born to HIV positive mothers (N = 262), n (%)	Children born to HIV negative mothers (N = 45), n (%)
Respiratory diseases¹	109 (35.5)	96 (36.6)	13 (28.9)
Malaria	53 (17.3)	46 (17.6)	7 (15.6)
Diarrheal diseases²	39 (12.7)	34 (13.0)	5 (11.1)
Undetermined	26 (8.5)	19 (7.3)	7 (15.6)
Meningitis	22 (7.2)	18 (6.9)	4 (8.8)
Septicaemia	20 (6.5)	20 (7.6)	0 (0.0)
Viral encephalitis	17 (5.5)	14 (5.3)	3 (6.6)
Other³	13 (4.2)	9 (3.4)	3 (6.7)
Neonatal conditions⁴	8 (2.6)	6 (2.3)	2 (4.4)
Total deaths	307 (100)	262 (100)	45 (100)

¹Respiratory illnesses included upper respiratory infection, acute pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis
²Diarrheal diseases included acute watery diarrhea, persistent diarrhea and dysentery
³Other included burns, protein energy malnutrition, severe anemia in congestive cardiac failure, motor traffic accident and burns
⁴Neonatal conditions included sudden infant death syndrome, congenital anomalies and haemorrhagic disease of the newborn

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