Table 2.

Characteristics of children in care by viral load testing status and ART initiation period

	Recent viral load	No recent viral load	P
ART initiations prior to April 2010, n	456	565
Facility catchment population, n (%)			0·001*
≤5000	9 (3·3%)	23 (4·6%)
5000–10 000	123 (45·4%)	159 (31·6%)
>10 000	139 (51·3%)	321 (63·8%)
Gender, n (%)			0·909
Male	226 (49·6%)	278 (49·2%)
Female	230 (50·4%)	287 (50·8%)
Time on treatment, years, median (range)	6·3 (4·7–9·9)	6·1 (4·7–9·9)	0·514
Current age, years, median (range)	11·7 (5·2–22·8)	11·9 (4·9–22·9)	0·419
ART initiations between April 2010 and August 2012, n	554	663
Facility catchment population, n (%)			<0·001†
≤5000	26 (6·9%)	24 (4·1%)
5000–10 000	209 (55·7%)	219 (37·4%)
>10 000	140 (37·3%)	342 (58·5%)
Gender, n (%)			0·041
Male	295 (53·3%)	314 (47·4%)
Female	259 (46·8%)	349 (52·6%)
Time on treatment, years, median (range)	3·4 (2·3–4·7)	3·5 (2·3–4·7)	0·063
Current age, years, median (range)	9·4 (2·6–19·4)	8·8 (2·6–18·5)	0·109
ART initiations after August 2012, n	423	621
Facility catchment population, n (%)			0·006‡
≤5000	20 (6·3%)	16 (2·8%)
5000–10 000	159 (50·2%)	263 (45·5%)
>10 000	138 (43·5%)	299 (51·7%)
Gender, n (%)			0·804
Male	199 (47·0%)	297 (47·8%)
Female	224 (53·0%)	324 (52·2%)
Time on treatment, years, median (range)	1·3 (0·5–2·3)	1·4 (0·5–2·3)	0·573
Current age, years, median (range)	7·4 (0·7–16·8)	6·7 (0·6–17·0)	0·093

ART, Antiretroviral therapy.

Statistically significant differences are shown in bold.

^*Significant difference between the 5000–10 000 and >10 000 groups (P < 0·001).

^†Significant difference between the 5000–10 000 and >10 000 groups (P < 0·001) and the ≤5000 and >10 000 groups (P = 0·001).

^‡Significant difference between the ≤5000 and >10 000 groups (P = 0·003) and the ≤5000 and 5000–10 000 groups (P = 0·035).