Table 1. People living with HIV (PLHIV) age ≥15 years linkage to care (LTC) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation by category of self-report HIV status and sex, NAIIS 2018.
HIV infection identified | Linkage to care | ART initiation | |||||
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N | N | Linkage rate (%) | p† | N | ART initiation rate (%) | p† | |
Overall | 1,975 | 1,342 | 67.9 | 952 | 70.9 | ||
Sex | 0.357 | 0.500 | |||||
Male | 611 | 424 | 69.4 | 306 | 72.2 | ||
Female | 1,364 | 918 | 67.3 | 646 | 70.4 | ||
Case type | 0.138 | 0.463 | |||||
Newly diagnosed | 1,890 | 1,278 | 67.6 | 904 | 70.7 | ||
Known infection not on ART | 85 | 64 | 75.3 | 48 | 75.0 |
† p-value for the chi-square test statistic.