Retention in care, resource utilization, and costs for adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: a retrospective cohort study

Table 1 Study site characteristics

Characteristic	Site 1	Site 2	Site 3	Site 4	Site 5	Site 6
Province	Lusaka	Lusaka	Copperbelt	Western	Southern	Southern
Facility type	Primary health clinic	Primary health clinic	Primary health clinic	Second-level general hospital^a	First-level district hospital^a	Second-level mission hospital^a
Setting	Urban	Urban	Urban	Urban	Urban	Rural
Number of active patients enrolled in ART program, 2008	5,488	5,102	1,167	5,748	524	2,981

ART: antiretroviral therapy.
^aFirst-level hospitals are district-level hospitals. Second-level hospitals are larger, provincial-level or general hospitals.

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