Test site predicts HIV care linkage and antiretroviral therapy initiation: a prospective 3.5 year cohort study of HIV-positive testers in northern Tanzania

Table 3 Multivariate analysis of associations with early death^a or late or no presentation to care^b among 237^c participants enrolled from HIV counselling and testing centres

	Early death			Late or no presentation to care
	OR	95 % CI	p	OR	95 % CI	p
Male gender	1.72	(1.08, 2.75)	0.022	1.15	(0.73, 1.83)	0.540
Age	0.99	(0.96, 1.02)	0.566	0.98	(0.95, 1.00)	0.057
Community enrollment site	0.76	(0.44, 1.30)	0.257	2.89	(1.79, 4.66)	<0.0001
Tested due to illness	1.63	(1.01, 2.63)	0.044	0.58	(0.34, 0.96)	0.034
PHQ-9	1.04	(1.01, 1.08)	0.012	0.99	(0.96, 1.03)	0.680
Stigma, internalized	1.00	(0.93, 1.04)	0.551	0.98	(0.93, 1.03)	0.368

Abbreviations: OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, PHQ-9 personal health quesionnaire-9 (assesses depression, higher scores indicate higher depression levels)
^adeath prior to 2nd study follow up visit
^bpresented to clinic >6 months after HIV+ diagnosis, or no presentation to clinic
^cparticipants with missing data in any measure were excluded

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