Treatment Buddies Improve Clinic Attendance among Women but Not Men on Antiretroviral Therapy in the Nyanza Region of Kenya

Table 4

Adjusted relative risks for factors associated with clinic attendance during the first six months on ART including relationship to TBy, by gender.

Predictor	Male				Female
		% attended	RR (95% CI); ()	aRR (95% CI); ()		% attended	RR (95% CI); ()	aRR (95% CI); ()
Treatment buddy relationship
Partner/spouse	250	62.4	1.18 (1.02–1.36)	1.05 (0.89–1.24)	198	69.7	1.14 (1.03–1.27)	1.01 (0.90–1.14)
Other	303	51.8	REF	REF	834	60.9	REF	REF
None	42	57.1	1.08 (0.82–1.44)	1.03 (0.77–1.37)	189	46.6	0.76 (0.65–0.90)	0.75 (0.62–0.90)

Adjusted for age, marital status, year ART initiated, CD4 count, clinic site, months from engagement in care to ART initiation, and WHO stage.