Same-Day CD4 Testing to Improve Uptake of HIV Care and Treatment in South Africa: Point-of-Care Is Not Enough

Table 1

Study sample demographic and clinical characteristics at the time of testing HIV-positive∗.

Characteristic	Baseline period		Pilot period
	𝑁	Result	𝑁	Result
Age (median, IQR)	350	37 (32–44)	418	36 (31–44)
Female (proportion)	348	64%	421	57%
Employed (proportion)	350	50%	421	38%
CD4 (median, IQR)	350	177 (63–331)	421	166 (72–314)
Eligible for ART or ART tracking (%)		64%		65%

∗These are patients with a CD4 test result available from the same date as HIV testing. The NHLS result is used for all patients in the baseline group and all but 10 patients in the pilot period, where the Pima result is used because an NHLS result could not be found in patient records or the NHLS database.