Demographic, ART, and clinical outcomes among patients with baseline viral loads >5000 copies/ml.

† Among patients with elevated VL, 10 were terminated prior to confirmatory testing; 4 died, 2 moved from the enrolling clinic, and 4 were referred immediately for second-line therapy. Among these 10 terminated patients, 4 were from the routine monitoring group and 6 from the targeted VL group.‡ Question: For most people, if you take all of your medications your viral load will: go up/be higher (correct) or go down/be lower (incorrect).*viral load (VL) values assigned as midpoint between 0 and lower limit of detection (40 copies/ml for plasma, 550 copies/ml for DBS).3TC—Lamivudine; ART—antiretroviral therapy; AZT—Zidovudine; d4T —Stavudine; DBS—dried blood spot; EFV—Efavirenz; IQR—interquartile range; LPV/r—lopinavir/ritonavir; NVP—Nevirapine; SD—standard deviation; TDF—Tenofovir; VL—viral load.Demographic, ART, and clinical outcomes among patients with baseline viral loads >5000 copies/ml.