Table 3.

Change in behavior and viral load from study enrollment to 6 month follow-up visit among HIV-infected persons identified through home-based counseling and testing (HBCT)

	N	Baseline^ Median (IQR)	Month 6 Median (IQR)	Change over 6 months	p-value*
Behavior and uptake of care
Number of sex partners (#2)	196	1.0 (0.0–1.0)	0.0 (1.0–1.0)	−0.08	0.03
	N	Baseline^ N (%)	Month 6 N (%)	Change over 6 months	p-value*
Condom use during last sexual intercourse	186	81 (44)	127 (68)	25%	<0.001
Clinic visit among HIV+
All	201	115 (57)	195 (97)	40%	<0.001
Aware of HIV+ status	128	108 (84)	125 (98)	13%	<0.001
Newly identified HIV+	73	7 (10)	70 (96)	86%	<0.001
ART use
All participants	201	64 (32)	99 (49)	17%	<0.001
Aware of HIV+ status	128	64 (50)	80 (63)	13%	<0.001
ART eligible (CD4≤200)	9	3 (33)	9 (100)	67%	***
Newly identified HIV+	73	0 (0)	19 (26)	26%	***
ART eligible (CD4≤200)	9	0 (0)	6 (67)	67%	***
HIV viral load	Mean HIV viral load (log10 copies/mL)
	N	Baseline^viral load	Month 6 viral load	Change over 6 months	p-value*
All HIV+	196	2.92	2.64	−0.28	0.02
HIV+ not on ART at baseline	132	3.74	3.30	−0.44	0.007
HIV+ on ART at baseline	64	1.24	1.30	0.06	0.624
CD4 ≤200 (excluding HIV+ on ART at baseline)	12	4.93	1.70	−3.23	<0.001
CD4 201–≤350 (excluding HIV+ on ART at baseline)	31	3.77	3.40	−0.36	0.29
Change in percent with viral suppression (<1,000 c/mL) from baseline to 6 months (%)
All HIV+	196	50%	55%	5%	0.21
HIV+ with CD4 ≤200	15	20%	80%	60%	0.01
HIV+ with CD4 ≤201–≤350	47	51%	57%	6%	0.55

^{^}Baseline visit is the first HBCT vist at study enrollment.

^*McNemar’s test was used to calculate p-value for binary outcome and paired t-test was used to calculate p-value for continuous outcome.

^**Three participants died and 2 withdrew from the study and were excluded from the follow-up analysis.

^***Cannot compute McNemar’s p-value due to 0 cell counts (either none on ART at enrollment or none who had not initiated by 6 months).