<p>Baseline characteristics and ART retention outcomes of PLHIV who received ARVs between

A 2020-2023 dataset from Lighthouse and Martin Preuss Centre in Lilongwe, Malawi, describing baseline characteristics and antiretroviral therapy (ART) retention outcomes for people living with HIV (PLHIV). The dataset was authored by Hannock Tweya and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It is a small dataset, 9.5 KB in size, stored in an XLS file format.

Use Cases

• Modeling ART retention risk factors based on patient baseline characteristics.
• Analyzing temporal trends in HIV treatment outcomes from 2020 to 2023.
• Comparing patient cohorts between two clinical centers in Lilongwe.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific four-year period from 2020 to 2023.
• Focuses on a well-defined patient population (PLHIV) at two named clinical centers.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (9.5 KB), indicating a limited scope or sample size.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely contains clinical records from Lighthouse and Martin Preuss Centre.

Time Range

2020 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 17:43:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lilongwe, Malawi