Table 2.
Patient HIV‐care experience and preferences for initiationa
| Variable | Categories | SLATE Arm | SLATE II Arm | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | South Africa | ||||
| (N = 240) | (N = 296) | ||||
| % | Number | % | Number | ||
| Previously visited this clinic for any kind of HIV care | No | 81% | 195 | 68% | 202 |
| Yes | 19% | 45 | 32% | 94 | |
| Reason for today's visit (multiple choices possible) | HIV test (diagnosis) | 48% | 114 | 36% | 108 |
| HIV care or monitoring | 34% | 81 | 48% | 141 | |
| Get care because did not feel well | 29% | 69 | 12% | 36 | |
| Reason not related to HIV care/treatment | 2% | 5 | 4% | 11 | |
| Ever tested positive before today | No | 62% | 148 | 55% | 163 |
| Yes | 38% | 92 | 45% | 133 | |
| Year first tested positive for HIV (if tested positive before today) | N tested positive before today | 92 | 133 | ||
| Prior to 2010 | 10% | 9 | 6% | 8 | |
| 2010‐2013 | 21% | 19 | 15% | 20 | |
| 2014‐2016 | 9% | 8 | 23% | 31 | |
| 2017‐2018 | 61% | 56 | 56% | 74 | |
| Expected to start ART today | No | 47% | 113 | 38% | 113 |
| Yes | 53% | 127 | 62% | 183 | |
| If not expecting to start today, reason not expecting to start today (multiple reasons possible) | N not expecting to start | 113 | 113 | ||
| First visit to site | 6% | 7 | 21% | 24 | |
| HIV status unknown before today | 86% | 97 | 49% | 55 | |
| Not eligible for treatment yet | 1% | 1 | 4% | 4 | |
| More visits expected | 2% | 2 | 25% | 28 | |
| Not told I was going to start | 3% | 3 | 8% | 9 | |
| I do not want to receive medications today | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | |
| Other reason | 5% | 6 | 4% | 5 | |
| Disclosed status to anyone else (if tested positive before today) | N tested positive before today | 92 | 133 | ||
| No | 23% | 21 | 17% | 22 | |
| Yes | 77% | 71 | 83% | 111 | |
| Do you have enough information to start ART today? | I already know enough | 78% | 186 | 68% | 201 |
| I would like a little more information | 17% | 40 | 22% | 65 | |
| I would like a lot more information | 6% | 14 | 10% | 30 | |
| When would you prefer to start ART? | Today | 98% | 235 | 98% | 289 |
| Within next week (but not today) | 1% | 3 | 2% | 6 | |
| Within next month (but not next week) | 0% | 1 | 0% | 1 | |
| Sometime in next 6 months (but not this month) | 0% | 0 | Not asked | ||
| I am not ready to start | 0% | 1 | 0% | 0 | |
a
The percentages in Table 2 are rounded to the nearest whole number.