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Table 3 Availability of ART sites according to different levels of HIV burden in 2009

	High burden province		Middle burden province		Low burden province
	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)
Number of provinces	8		29		26
Number of districts	122		300		268
Number of ART sites	80		88		39
District with ART	65		72		30
Density of ART site (%)		65.6		29.3		14.6
(Number of ART sites / Number of districts x 100)		65.6		29.3		14.6
Estimated number of patients needing ART	36,682	(58.0)	21,197	(33.5)	5,409	(8.5)
Number of patients on ART	25,449	(70.7)	8,464	(23.5)	2,095	(5.8)
Estimated number of patients needing ART per district	301		71		20
Number of ART patients per district	209		28		8
ART coverage (%)
(Number of patients on ART / Estimated number of patients needing ART x 100)		69.4		39.9		38.7

Remark: High burden province: over 300 reported cases per district and over 150 patients needing ART per district;
Middle burden province: over 100 reported cases per district or over 50 patients needing ART per district;
Low burden: less than 100 reported cases per district and less than 50 patients needing ART per district.
(Source: COPC review group: Unpublished report; 2010, Do TN: Unpublished presentation; 2010).

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