Estimated proportions of persons in care for HIV infection treated according to guidelines, by Ryan White Program funding status King County Washington, southern Louisiana and Michigan, 1998.

RWP: Ryan White Program; HAART: Highly active antiretroviral therapy; PCP: Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia; MAC: Mycobacterium avium complex; TB: tuberculosis; CD4: CD4+ T-lymphocyte count in cells/��L; CI: confidence interval.*Treated/eligible = number of persons receiving care/number of persons eligible for care?Eligibility for HAART was defined as CD420000, bDNA>10000 or AIDS-defining opportunistic illness diagnosis (any time before or during 1998)?Eligibility for PCP prophylaxis was defined as CD4��p��.001 for ?2 comparing percentages of patients at RWP and non-RWP funded providers within study site��Eligibility for MAC prophylaxis was defined as CD4M. avium complex diagnosis (any tine before or during 1998)??p��.05 for ?2 comparing percentages of patients at RWP and non-RWP funded providers within study site**Eligibility for TB test was defined as follows: no tuberculosis diagnosis or sputum culture positive to M. tuberculosis prior to 1998.?p��.01for ?2 comparing percentages of patients at RWP and non-RWP funded providers within study site??The only exclusions from this analysis were men, and women with a diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer and age 13�C17 with non-sexual transmission mode.