Table 2.
Baseline and follow-up clinical characteristics of adult malnourished HIV patients enrolled in the therapeutic feeding program, Finote-Selam Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2010–2017.
| Variables | Category | Frequency (percentage) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recovered | Not recovered | ||
| ART status | On ART | 190 (82.6%) | 106 (72.6%) |
| Pre-ART | 40 (17.4%) | 40 (27.4%) | |
| Duration of ART | <6 month | 65 (34.2%) | 34 (32.0) |
| 6–12 | 14 (7.4%) | 4 (3.8) | |
| >12 month | 111 (58.4%) | 68 (64.2%) | |
| ART adherence level | Good | 115 (61.2%) | 44 (41.5) |
| Fair/poor | 73 (38.8%) | 64 (58.8%) | |
| WHO clinical stage | Stages I and II | 152 (66.1%) | 76 (52.1%) |
| Stages III and IV | 78 (33.9%) | 70 (47.9%) | |
| CD4 count | <100 | 57 (24.8%) | 29 (19.9%) |
| 100–200 | 55 (23.9%) | 47 (32.2%) | |
| 200–350 | 63 (27.4%) | 38 (26.0%) | |
| >350 | 55 (23.9%) | 32 (21.9%) | |
| Hemoglobin | <10 | 7 (8.6%) | 12 (28.6%) |
| 10–11.99 | 10 (12.3%) | 16 (38.1%) | |
| ≥12 | 64 (79.0%) | 14 (33.3%) | |
| Functional status | Working | 214 (93.0%) | 117 (80.1%) |
| Ambulatory/Bedridden | 16 (7.0%) | 29 (19.9%) | |
| Baseline OIs | Yes | 25 (10.9%) | 35 (24.0%) |
| No | 205 (89.1%) | 111 (76.0%) | |
| Cotrimoxazole status | Yes | 211 (91.7%) | 128 (87.7%) |
| No | 19 (8.3%) | 18 (12.3%) | |
| INH status | Yes | 57 (24.8%) | 31 (21.2%) |
| No | 173 (75.2%) | 115 (78.8%) | |
| Other medication | Yes | 16 (7.0%) | 17 (11.6%) |
| No | 214 (93.0%) | 129 (88.4%) | |
| Type of malnutrition | MAM | 186 (80.9%) | 83 (56.8%) |
| SAM | 44 (19.1%) | 63 (43.2%) | |
ART, antiretroviral treatment; INH, isoniazid; OI, opportunistic infection; WHO, World Health Organization.