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Table 1 Patient outcomes at six months, by patient and clinic characteristics as well as by year of registration

From: Strategies for monitoring and evaluation of resource-limited national antiretroviral therapy programs: the two-phase design

	Status at six months		Rate, %
	Non-negative^a	Negative^b
Overall	66,746	16,141	19.5
Age, years
16-25	7,116	2,130	23.0
26-35	26,460	6,575	19.9
36-45	21,078	4,756	18.4
46-55	8,835	1,888	17.6
56-65	2,785	656	19.1
>65	472	136	22.4
Gender
Male	25,150	7,172	22.2
Female	41,596	8,969	17.7
WHO stage
1/2	4,418	314	6.6
3/4	62,328	15,827	20.3
Region
Central/North	27,662	7,269	20.8
South	39,084	8,872	18.5
Registration year
2005	12,238	3,514	22.3
2006	23,893	6,181	20.6
2007	30,615	6,446	17.4
Clinic type
Public	64,651	15,839	19.7
Private	2,095	302	12.6

^aNon-negative = transferred-out or alive and on-treatment.
^bNegative = stopping treatment, lost to follow-up or death.

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