Table 2.

Primary Causes of Early Mortality in in Adults Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy with Advanced HIV Disease

	Treatment Strategy
	Empiric (N=30)	IPT (N=36)	Total (N=66)
Primary Cause of Death HIV infection or HIV-related diagnosis	23 (77%)	24 (67%)	47 (71%)
Pulmonary or extra pulmonary tuberculosis	3	4	7
Pulmonary – respiratory disease/failure	4	3	6
Bacterial Sepsis	1	3	4
Cryptococcal meningitis	2	2	4
Hematologic disease (other than clotting)	2	2	4
Cardiovascular shock	2	1	3
Kaposi Sarcoma	3	0	3
Bacterial pneumonia – probable	1	1	2
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia	1	0	1
Other	4	8	12
Non-HIV diagnosis	2 (7%)	6 (17%)	8 (12%)
Toxicity	0 (0%)	1 (3%)	1 (2%)
No information available	5 (17%)	5 (14%)	10 (15%)