Table 2.

Cumulative incidence of clinical outcomes among patients presenting with and without advanced HIV (N = 957)

	Advanced HIV (N = 105)		Non-advanced HIV (N = 852)		p-value
	N	%	N	%
ART Initiation within 14 days	64	61.0	594	69.7	0.067
Receipt of a viral load test within 9 months	45	42.9	297	34.9	0.107
Viral load < 200 copies/ml at first test within 9 months (N = 342)	33	73.3	230	77.4	0.542
Treatment failurea at 12 months	23	21.9	121	14.2	0.037
Dead at 12 months	10	9.5	13	1.5	< 0.001
Lost to follow-up at 12 months	14	13.3	106	12.4	0.795
Virological failureb at 12 months	0	0.0	2	0.2	0.793c
Treatment failurea at 18 months	26	24.8	163	19.1	0.171
Dead at 18 months	11	10.5	16	1.9	< 0.001
Lost to follow-up at 18 months	15	14.3	143	16.8	0.515
Virological failureb at 18 months	1	1.0	4	0.5	0.441c

^aTreatment failure was composite outcome that included death, loss to follow-up, or virological failure

^bVirological failure which was defined as having a viral load ≥ 200 copies/ml among those who had previously achieved viral suppression

^cFisher's exact test was used due to small cell count