Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of 19,506 patients who entered HIV care between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2017 at 15 Central Africa IeDEA clinical sites and were followed for ART initiation up to 2 years.

Characteristics	Overall (N = 19,506)		Patients lost to follow-up (Nlost = 4387)
	n	%	n	%
Male sex	7257	37	1645	38
Country of health facility
Burundi	4387	22	997	23
Democratic Republic of Congo	3268	17	293	7
Rwanda	11,851	61	3097	71
Age at enrollment (in years)
10 or under	1442	7	294	7
11 – 20	1196	6	283	5
21 – 30	5717	29	1485	34
31 – 40	6429	33	1380	31
41 – 50	3336	17	696	16
51+	1386	7	249	6
Calendar year of enrollment
2006 – 2009	7929	41	2765	63
2010 – 2014	8325	43	1478	34
2015 – 2017	3252	17	144	3

ART: antiretroviral therapy