Human immunodeficiency virus cascade–continuum of care stages and outcomes in a hospital in southern Brazil

Table 1 Analysis of variables with absolute number and relative percentage and Poisson regression with robust simple variance of each variable in relation to the steps of the cascade of patients diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in the Nossa Senhora da Conceição Hospital, n (%)/95%CI

	Total	Linked	P value	Retained	P value	On ART	P value	HIV-VL suppressed	P value
Total	534	500 (93.6)		455 (85.2)		368 (68.9)		308 (57.6)
Gender
Female	303 (56.7)	284 (93.7)	0.917	264 (87.1)	0.161	198 (65.3)	0.039	162 (53.5)	0.023
		1.00 (0.95-1.04)		1.05 (0.97-1.13)		0.88 (0.79-0.99)		0.84 (0.73-0.97)
Male	231 (43.3)	216 (93.5)		191 (82,7)		170 (73,6)		146 (63,2)
		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Age (yr)
18-29	154 (28.8)	148 (96.1)	0.252	129 (83.8)	0.420	92 (59.7)	0.000	70 (45.5)	0.000
		1.03 (0.97-1.10)		0.96 (0.86-1.06)		0.73 (0.63-0.86)		0.63 (0.51-0.78)
30-49	270 (50.6)	250 (92.6)	0.964	230 (85.2)	0.585	187 (69.3)	0.012	159 (58.9)	0.011
		0.99 (0.93-1.06)		0.97 (0.89-1.06)		0.85 (0.75-0.96)		0.82 (0.70-0.95)
> 50	110 (20.6)	102 (92.7)		96 (87.3)		89 (80.9)		79 (71.8)
		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
Race
White	374 (70.0)	348 (93.0)		319 (85.3)		266 (71.1)		255 (60.2)
		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
Not white	160 (30.0)	152 (95.0 )	0.367	136 (85.0)	0.930	102 (63.7)	0.108	83 (51.9)	0.089
		1.02 (0.97-1.06)		0.99 (0.92-1.07)		0.89 (0.78-1.02)		0.86 (0.72-1.02)
Education
Illiterate	16 (3.0)	12 (75)	0.188	11 (68.8)	0.103	9 (56.3)	0.031	7 (43.8)	0.064
		0.80 (0.58-1.11)		0.74 (0.51-1.06)		0.60 (0.38-0.95)		0.55 (0.30-1.03)
Elementary School	367 (68.7)	346 (94.3)	0.840	310 (84.5)	0.221	246 (67.0)	0.000	202 (55.0)	0.016
		1.01 (0.87-1.17)		0.91 (0.78-1.05)		0.72 (0.61-0.84)		0.70 (0.52-0.93)
High School	136 (25.5)	128 (94.1)	0.861	120 (88.2)	0.526	99 (72.8)	0.007	87 (64.0)	0.181
		1.01 (0.87-1.17)		0.95 (0.81-1.11)		0.78 (0.65-0.93)		0.81 (0.60-1.10)
University Education	14 (2.6)	13 (92.9)		13 (92.9)		13 (92.9)		11 (78.6)
		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
City of origin
Porto Alegre	370 (69.3)	350 (94.6)		312 (84.3)		249 (67.3)		210 (56.8)
		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
Metropolitan region	128 (24.0)	118 (92.2)	0.367	112 (87.5)	0.358	94 (73.4)	0.175	79 (61.7)	0.313
		0.97(0.92-1.03)		1.03 (0.95-1.12)		1.09 (0.96-1.23)		1.08 (0.92-1.28)
Countryside	36 (6.7)	32 (88.9)	0.302	31 (86.1)	0.766	25 (69.4)	0.787	19 (52.8)	0.658
		0.94 (0.83-1.05)		1.02 (0.88-1.17)		1.03 (0.82-1.29)		0.93 (0.67-1.28)
Follow-up site
HNSC	236 (51.8)	236 (100)		225 (95.3)		197 (83.5)		172 (72.9)
		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
External	220 (48.2)	219 (99.5)	0.317	209 (95.0)	0.866	169 (76.8)	0.07	135 (61.4)	0.010
		0.99 (0.98-1.00)		0.99 (0.95-1.03)		0.92 (0.83-1.00)		0.84 (0.73-0.95)

P < 0.20 considered significant. ART: Antiretroviral therapy; HIV-VL: Human immunodeficiency virus-viral load; HNSC: Nossa Senhora da Conceição Hospital.