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

Table 2 Poisson regression analysis with multivariable robust variance in relation to the steps on antiretroviral therapy and human immunodeficiency virus-viral load suppressed of patients diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in the Nossa Senhora da Conceição Hospital, 95%CI

	On ART	P value	HIV-VL suppressed	P value
Gender
Female	0.93 (0.85-1.02)	0.163	0.90 (0.80-1.02)	0.126
Male	1.00		1.00
Age (yr)
18-29	0.79 (0.69-0.90)	0.000	0.66 (0.54-0.80)	0.000
30-49	0.90 (0.82-0.99)	0.041	0.87 (0.76-0.99)	0.044
> 50	1.0		1.0
Race
White	1.0		1.0
Not White	0.94 (0.85-1.05)	0.325	0.91 (0.78-1.05)	0.215
Education
Illiterate	0.98 (0.75-1.28)	0.886	1.03 (0.68-1.55)	0.881
Elementary School	0.86 (0.73-1.00)	0.060	0.86 (0.66-1.14)	0.311
High School	0.93 (0.78-1.10)	0.415	1.03 (0.78-1.37)	0.794
University Education	1.0		1.0
City of origin
Porto Alegre	0.96 (0.80-1.15)	0.693
Metropolitan region	1.06 (0.88-1.27)	0.534
Countryside	1.0
Follow-up site
HNSC	1.09 (0.99-1.20)	0.055	1.18 (1.03-1.34)	0.011
External	1.0		1.0

P < 0.05 considered significant. ART: Antiretroviral therapy; HIV-VL: Human immunodeficiency virus-viral load; HNSC: Nossa Senhora da Conceição Hospital.