Factors Contributing to Low Antiretroviral Therapy Enrolment of Children in the Simiyu Region: A Cross-Sectional Creswell’s Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Design

The dataset includes children living with HIV aged two to fourteen years whose caregivers were willing to share information regarding their children's medical history. A questionnaire was given to caregivers, and the corresponding answers were recorded. This included the age of the child, marital status of the caregiver, distance to the health facility, education level of the caregiver, source of income, relationship to the child, date of birth, birthplace, time since HIV diagnosis, beliefs about discrimination, history of HIV testing of the child (date tested, ART status, ART start date), and experiences of stigma. For all quantitative data analyses, we utilised Stata™ software. The University of Dodoma and the National Health Research Ethics Sub-Committee (NatHREC) approved the data collection under the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR). Participation was voluntary and undertaken with written consent. The data were collected cross-sectionally using a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design described by Creswell, 2006.