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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2017 Apr;21(4):1016–1024. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1585-5

Table 5.

Comparison of person-years (PY) according to their classification as “retained” based on three different definitions of retention in care, stratified by IDU

Retained by visits
Retained by HIV labs
Yes No


Yes No Yes No
PWID
  Person-years 4374 541 1498 2445
  PY (%) on ART 3643 (83.3 %) 343 (63.4 %) 1096 (73.2 %) 26 (1.1 %)
  PY (%) virally suppressed 3120 (71.3 %) 196 (36.2 %) 866 (57.8 %) 11 (0.4 %)
Non-IDU
  Person-years 10,222 961 2416 3195
  PY (%) on ART 8943 (87.5 %) 731 (76.1 %) 1863 (77.1 %) 51 (1.6 %)
  PY (%) virally suppressed 7839 (76.7 %) 457 (47.6 %) 1489 (61.6 %) 34 (1.1 %)

IDU injection drug use, self-reported HIV transmission risk, PWID persons who inject drugs, PY person-year