Table 2.

Reasons given for dropping out of care: univariate proportions and counts by order of magnitude (N = 430).

	Yes
Item	N	%
I felt well and thought I didn't need care	136	32
Transportation was difficult or expensive	128	30
Work interfered with picking up meds or visiting clinic	103	24
I had family obligations	74	17
I didn't have enough money to access care	59	14
Seeking cure by prayer/religious rituals, or I saw/am seeing a traditional healer instead	54	13
Attending clinic risked disclosure that I had HIV	51	12
Afraid the clinic would scold me for missing appointments	43	10
Attending clinic risked disclosure to my family that I had HIV	43	10
I spent too much time at the clinic	34	8
Work interfered with taking medications	32	7
I did not want to take drugs forever	29	7
Patient moved (coded from responses in open text fields)	25	6
The medicine was not helping me feel better, or I was experiencing side-effects from the medicine	24	6
A family member/important person told me to stop going	20	5
The staff was not nice	14	3
I didn't have enough food	12	3

Percentages shown are the proportion of total respondents who answered ‘yes’ to a given reason for dropping out of care;responses were not mutually exclusive. A total of 14 variables on reasons for dropping out of care with 10 or fewer ‘yes’ responses were not shown.