ART Understanding the causes of death among HIV/AIDS patients commencing ART in Karonga district
Malawi, 2004 - 2018
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MWI-MEIRU-ARTidentification-2009-v1
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Reason for ART1 (reasart1)
Data file: art_artregisters
Overview
Valid:
17207
Invalid:
51
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
126
End:
127
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
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Reason for starting ART1
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WHO clinical stage 1 | 497 |
2.9%
|
| 2 | WHO clinical stage 2 | 207 |
1.2%
|
| 3 | WHO clinical ctage 3 | 8497 |
49.4%
|
| 4 | WHO clinical stage 4 | 2636 |
15.3%
|
| 5 | CD4 threshold | 2348 |
13.6%
|
| 6 | TLC threshold | 99 |
0.6%
|
| 7 | Kaposi sarcoma | 73 |
0.4%
|
| 8 | Tuberculosis | 265 |
1.5%
|
| 9 | Prevention of mother to child transmission | 48 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Pregnant woman | 1030 |
6%
|
| 11 | Breast feeding mother | 430 |
2.5%
|
| 12 | Present severe HIV disease | 25 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | Child < 12 m PCR+ | 14 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | Child 12 - 23 m | 66 |
0.4%
|
| 15 | Transfer in | 902 |
5.2%
|
| 16 | ???? | 1 |
0%
|
| 98 | Unknown/other | 69 |
0.4%
|
| 99 | Missing | 50 | |
| Sysmiss | 1 |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.