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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: S Afr Med J. 2012 Oct 22;102(12):936–939. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.6024

Table 2.

Duration of delays between starting TB treatment and starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) among patients who initiated treatment with ART start date recorded stratified by CD4 cell count category

Duration of delay between starting TB treatment and starting ART Patients with CD4 <50 (n=55) Patients with CD4 50-200 (n=114) Patients with CD4 count >200 (n=46) All patients (n=215)
<2 weeks 7 (12.7) 6 (5.3) 2 (4.4) 15 (6.9)
<4 weeks 20 (36.4) 25 (21.9) 8 (17.4) 53 (24.7)
<6 weeks 30 (54.6) 46 (40.4) 11 (23.9) 87 (40.5)
<8 weeks 41 (74.6) 64 (56.1) 21 (45.7) 126 (58.6)
More than 8 weeks 14 (25.5) 50 (43.9) 25 (54.4) 89 (41.4)

TB, tuberculosis