Barriers to Initiation of Pediatric HIV Treatment in Uganda: A Mixed-Method Study

Table 1

Characteristics of the Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) sites.

	Kampala	Fort Portal	Mbale
Location	National capital	District capital	District capital
Population^a	1,659,600	47,100	91,800
Catchment area	Urban	Urban and rural	Urban and rural
HIV prevalence^b	5–9.9%	5–9.9%	5–9.9%
Number of adults in care at JCRC (% of total)^c	15306 (85.7)	5880 (87.3)	3027 (85.7)
Number of children in care at JCRC (% total)^c	2553 (14.3)	858 (12.7)	506 (14.3)
Number of adults receiving ART at JCRC (% of adults in care)^c	6096 (39.8)	2575 (43.8)	2505 (82.8)
Number of children receiving ART at JCRC (% of children in care)^c	888 (34.8)	340 (39.6)	349 (69.0)

^aSource: Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) 2011.
^bSource: UNAIDS Epidemiological Factsheet Uganda 2009.
^cSource: Monitoring and Evaluation records at JCRC, 2011.