Evaluation of a Pilot Medication-Assisted Therapy Program in Kazakhstan: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Scaleup

Table 1

Characteristics of MAT patients who participated in interviews.

Site	Age; Mean (SD)	Gender (men); Percentage	Completed years of school; Mean (SD)	Months since enrollment; Mean (SD)	Years of injecting drugs before MAT; Mean (SD)
Pavlodar	34,7 (7,26)	69	9,3 (1,30)	17,1 (10,4)	12,4 (5,4)
Ust-Kamenogorsk	32,6 (4,56)	72	9,6 (2,03)	10,2 (4,3)	11,3 (4,9)
Temirtau	36,0 (7,55)	77	9,6 (1,19)	17,3 (12,9)	14,6 (4,6)