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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 19.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2016 Jul 31;30(12):1913–1922. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001085

Table 1. Cohort description of antiretroviral therapy-treated adults eligible for inclusion in analysis for 60 months of follow-up after antiretroviral therapy initiation.

83 926 initiated ART (of whom 3083 with less than drugs were excluded)
Follow-up time (months) In care LTFUa In care without a CD4+ cell countb In care with CD4+ cell countc In care with pre-ART CD4+ and follow-up CD4+ cell countd
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
0 80 843
6 65 930 (82) 14 913 (18) 13 851 (21) 29 050 (44) 23 029 (35)
12 54 923 (68) 25 920 (32) 15 316 (28) 22 347 (41) 17 260 (31)
24 39 547 (49) 15 376 (19) 15 257 (39) 14 058 (36) 10 232 (26)
36 26 675 (33) 12 872 (16) 16 192 (61)   6037 (23)   4446 (17)
48 18 322 (23)   8353 (10) 13 245 (72)   2024 (11)   3053 (17)
60 10 423 (13) 7899 (9)   6712 (64)   2149 (21)   1562 (15)

ART, antiretroviral therapy; LTFU, loss to follow-up.

a

LTFU (individuals who have not had a clinic visit for 6 months and were excluded from the analyses) the percentage is among all patients initiated on three-drug first-line ART regimen.

b

Patients in care without a CD4+ cell count within 2 months of time point, excluded from the analyses. The percentage is among all patients in care at each time point.

c

Patients in care with CD4+ cell counts within 2 months of time point, the percentage is among all patients in care at each time point.

d

Patients in care with pre-ART CD4+ cell and a follow-up CD4+ cell count, the percentage is among all patients in care at each time point.