ABSTRACT
This paper presents results of study that was carried on 110 malnourished children aged 3-84 months who were admitted in the Child Nutrition Ward in Old Mulago Hospital-Kampala; Uganda. The children were admitted for intensive nutritional therapy and came from a radius of about 15 kilometres from the treatment center. Permission from relevant review boards was sought and given; as was permission from the parents or guardians sought before any child was recruited in the study; other inclusion criteria having also been fulfilled. The survival curves derived from life tables for oedema loss did not show any significant difference between the two serostatuses; although HIV-1 seronegative tended to loose oedema faster than their counterparts. However; there was a significant difference when considering cumulative probabilities of survival in the two groups. This suggested that some of the HIV-1 seropositive could actually have had active paediatric AIDS. Therefore; seropositivity affected the outcome of treatment in that there was a much higher case fatality rate among HIV seropositive cases than the other group; other factors remaining constant