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BMC Pediatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy and its correlates among HIV infected pediatric patients in Ethiopia 1 1 2 Sibhatu Biadgilign , Amare Deribew , Alemayehu Amberbir and Kebede Deribe*3 Address: 1Jimma University, Public Health Faculty, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jimma, Ethiopia, 2Addis Ababa University, School of Public Health, Butajira Birth cohort project, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and 3Fayyaa Integrated Development Association-NCMI, PEPFAR- New Partners Initiative, P.O. Box 19715 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Email: Sibhatu Biadgilign - sibhatu2005@; Amare Deribew - amare_deribew@; Alemayehu Amberbir - alamwo1@; Kebede Deribe* - kebededeka@ * Corresponding author Published: 6 December 2008 Received: 5 August 2008 Accepted: 6 December 2008 BMC Pediatrics 2008, 8:53 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-8-53 This article is available from: /1471-2431/8/53 © 2008 Biadgilign et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has resulted in striking reductions in HIV-related mortality. Despite increased availability of ART, children remain