International Scholarly Research Notices / 2014 / Article / Tab 1 / Research Article
Factors Determining Survival and Retention among HIV-Infected Children and Adolescents in a Community Home-Based Care and a Facility-Based Family-Centred Approach in Kampala, Uganda: A Cohort Study Table 1 Baseline characteristics of HIV-infected children and adolescents in a community home-based care model and a facility-based family-centred approach, Kampala, Uganda, 2003–2010.
Characteristics Community home-based care approach
= 1,460 Facility-based family-centred approach
= 163 Total
= 1,623
values
(%)
(%)
(%)Age (months) <12 371 (25.4) 54 (33.1) 425 (26.2) 0.097 12–35 228 (15.6) 21 (12.9) 249 (15.3) 36–59 173 (11.9) 23 (14.1) 196 (12.1) 60+ 688 (47.1) 65 (38.9) 753 (46.4) Gender Female 746 (51.1) 87 (53.4) 833 (51.3) 0.581 Male 714 (48.9) 77 (46.6) 790 (48.7) Cd4 count and percent Median CD4 (IQR) 393 (51–762) 727 (442–1348) 438 (78–824) <0.001 Median CD4% (IQR) 5.8 (0.1–16.9) 17.0 (10.0–25.0) 8.1 (0.2–18.1) <0.001 Level of immunosuppression by CD4 Not significant 273 (24.4) 39 (25.0) 312 (24.4) 0.424 Mild 122 (10.8) 21 (13.5) 143 (11.1) Advanced 131 (11.6) 12 (7.7) 143 (11.1) Severe 605 (53.5) 84 (53.8) 689 (53.5) On ART Yes 441 (30.2) 163 (100) 604 (37.2) <0.001 No 1019 (69.8) 0 (0.0) 1019 (62.8) Age at ART initiation (months) Median (IQR) 91.0 (48.9–135.5) 45.9 (6.5–85.0) 78.6 (34.0–124.6) <0.001 WHO clinical staging I-II 1258 (86.4) 157 (96.9) 1415 (87.5) <0.001 III-IV 198 (13.6) 5 (3.1) 203 (12.5) Growth response weight-for-age ≤−2SD 430 (37.4) 24 (16.9) 454 (35.2) <0.001 >−2SD 719 (62.6) 118 (83.1) 837 (64.8) Height-for-age ≤−2SD 508 (44.3) 43 (30.3) 551 (42.8) 0.001 >−2SD 639 (55.7) 99 (69.7) 738 (57.2)