TABLE 1.
Characteristics of Participants
Characteristic | Total (N = 250) n (%) |
Age, median years (IQR) | 31 (26–36) |
Facility | |
Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital | 70 (28) |
Busia County Referral Hospital | 60 (24) |
Kitale County Referral Hospital | 45 (18) |
Uasin Gishu County Hospital | 45 (18) |
Huruma Sub-County Hospital | 30 (12) |
Educational attainment | |
None | 72 (29) |
Primary | 83 (33) |
Secondary | 46 (18) |
Tertiary or higher | 49 (20) |
Unemployed | 117 (47) |
Family income (Ksh/month) | |
<1000 | 13 (5) |
1001–10,000 | 94 (38) |
>10,000 | 143 (57) |
Travel time to facility, median minutes (IQR) | 40 (30–60) |
Queuing time* | |
≤60 min | 153 (62) |
>60 min | 95 (38) |
Pregnant | 104 (42) |
Parity >1 | 68 (27) |
Retention status | |
Retained | 200 (80) |
Gap in care | 50 (20) |
Timing of HIV diagnosis | |
New positive | 78 (31) |
Known positive | 172 (69) |
Years on ART, median (IQR)† | 6.4 (3.2–9.9) |
Antiretroviral base | |
Dolutegravir | 229 (92) |
Atazanavir or lopinavir | 18 (7) |
Efavirenz or nevirapine | 3 (1) |
Viral load <200 copies/mL‡ | 172 (88) |
n = 248.
Among 172 women diagnosed with HIV before enrollment in PMTCT services.
Among 195 women with an available viral load.