Table 3.

Retention in care of individuals not yet eligible for antiretroviral therapy

Author	Country	Setting	Year of the study	N	Retention in pre-ART care (time cut off)	Assessment of pre-ART retention	Comment
Lessells [46]	SA	Rural Kwazulu Natal, public sector clinics	2007	4223	45% (13 months)	repeat CD4 count
Ingle [36]	SA	Free State, public sector clinics	2004–07	11039	42% (six months)	Visits	12% died, 46% loss to follow-up
Larson [50]	SA	Johannesburg, hospital, clinic	2007–08	356	CD4 200 to 350: 6% within four months, 41% within one year CD4 350+: 15% within nine months, 26% within one year
Kranzer [30]	SA	Cape Town, hospital, primary care clinic	2004–09	419*	46% (no time cut-off)	Repeat CD4 count
McGuire [51]	Malawi	Rural Malawi, district hospital, clinics	2004–07	5685	59% (no time cut-off)		3% known dead, 6% transferred out, 31% loss to follow-up (a sample of the patients lost to follow-up were traced: 26% were alive, 35% were dead, 10% moved, 29% were not found)