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There is paucity of data on weight gain in the HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) infants compared to HIV-unexposed uninfected (HUU) infants receiving KMC.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study compared the weight gain of HEU and infants HUU from admission to the KMC ward until 12 months corrected age (CA) follow-up visit.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Retrospective record review of the neonates admitted in KMC at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital over a 2-year period (2012\u20132013). The weight gain was assessed <jats:italic>via<\/jats:italic> weight velocity using the formula; weight\/kg\/day from admission to KMC to discharge, and g\/ week at term, 3, 6 and 9- and 12-months (CA). The demographics were collected and analyzed using Statistica.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Seventy-seven (129\/166) percent of the mothers were HIV negative. HIV negative mothers were younger (25.9 vs. 31.6 years; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.000) and had fewer pregnancies (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.02). There was no difference between the gestational age (30.3 \u00b1 2.53 vs. 30.8 \u00b1 2.88 weeks; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.35) and birthweight (1,345 g \u00b1 234 vs. 1,314 g \u00b1 209; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.47) between HEU and HUU. There were no differences in the weight gain (23.83 g \u00b1 12.2 vs. 23.22 g \u00b1 15.2; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.83) in KMC. There was no differences in weight gain at the different follow-up time points between the two groups.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Both HEU and HUU groups of infants showed reasonable weight gain despite maternal HIV status.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fped.2022.933968","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,7]],"date-time":"2022-09-07T06:13:08Z","timestamp":1662531188000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["A comparison of weight gain between HIV exposed uninfected and HIV unexposed uninfected infants who received KMC at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Leshata Abigail","family":"Mapatha","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Firdose Lambey","family":"Nakwa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mantoa","family":"Mokhachane","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","year":"2021","journal-title":"Levels and Trends in Child Mortality - Report 2021 Estimates developed by the UN inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"891","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(05)71048-5","article-title":"Lancet neonatal survival steering team. 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