Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of study participants before the start of HAART for adherent patients (262)

Characteristics	n	%	Characteristics	n	%
Gender			Religion
Women	180	68.7	Christianity	193	73.6
Men	82	31.3	Moslem	19	7.3
			Other	1	0.4
			Missing Data	49	18.7
Employment Status			Marital Status
Unemployed	40	15.3	Single	57	21.8
Self-employed	144	54.9	Married	91	34.7
Workers	29	11.1	Divorced/Widowed	77	29.4
Missing Data	49	18.7	Missing Data	37	14.1
Level of Education			WHO Staging
Non-Educated	36	13.7	I	35	13.4
Primary/JSS	127	48.5	II	70	26.7
Secondary	36	13.7	III	59	22.5
Tertiary	15	5.8	IV	7	2.7
Missing Data	48	18.3	Missing Data	91	34.7
Age group (year)*			Baseline CD4 (cells/µl)†	(n=200)
15–34	83	31.7	<100	92	46
35–54	156	59.5	100–199	72	36
55–74	23	8.8	200–250	36	18

^*Age (year), mean (40), minimum (15), maximum (70)

^†Baseline CD4 (cells/µl), geometric mean (70.2), minimum (2), maximum (248)