Fig. 1

Kaplan–Meier curves showing time to virologic suppression or death. a, b Show Kaplan–Meier estimates of time to suppression of HIV viral load ≤400 and 50 copies/ml respectively. All 152 patients were included in these analyses and patients were censored at death, loss to the programme or on 30 April 2014. The median time to suppression ≤400 copies/ml was 194 days and to ≤50 copies/ml was 368 days. Viral load measurements were generally performed 6 monthly, partly explaining the delayed suppression; c shows Kaplan–Meier estimates of time to death analysis. Patients were censored at 30 April 2014 for this analysis (vital status was known for all patients on this date)