ARV Numbers

Below are the Saint Benedictine HIV stats for 2004. Remember patients started officially on April 2004 and so this is compilation of a short year. It shows three different groups.

Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Stats
This group is the patients that have a suspected HIV infection either by a physician or by themselves. Some are then counseled and then most of them are tested. I think it’s important to note the rather high numbers of self referrals.

Self Referred 1480
Medically Referred 2341
Pretest Counseled 3199
Total Tested 3064
Total Not Tested 145
Total Tested Positive 2235
Total Tested Negative 807
Total Discordant 12
Posttest Counseled 3064
Ongoing Counseling 408

Preventing Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Stats
Pregnant females with suspecting HIV symptoms are sent for counseling immediately. In this case numbers show that many soon to be mothers do not want to get tested.

Pretest Counseled 1976
Posttest Counseled 774
Total Tested 774
Total Tested Positive 291
Total Tested Negative 453
Total Not Tested 540
Mothers Given NVP (prophylaxis) 299
Babies Given NVP (prophylaxis) 275
Supplies Register 836
Clinic Register 852
Babies Tested 19

ARV Clinic Stats
The most astounding number is that 63% of individuals on the first CD4 screening register below a 200 cell count. That means most individuals come into the hospital at a late stage presentation of HIV or full blown AIDS.

CD4 Screening 2041
CD4 >200: 770
CD4 <200: 1271
Training Session 1: 1654
Training Session 2: 1665
Training Session 3: 1583
Side Effects 104
Deaths 11
Regimen 1A (d4t, 3tc, efavirenz) 49
Regimen 1B (d4t, 3tc, NVP) 112