Probable country of infection | Reported HIV type | Proportion of reported HIV infections typed as either HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2 | |||||
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HIV-1 | HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2 | Subtotal | Type notreported | Total | Lower estimate‡ (%) | Higher estimate‡ (%) | |
Reports received by end of March 2004. | |||||||
*Between 5 and 15 individuals were diagnosed and reported as infected in each of these countries and had an HIV type reported. | |||||||
†Fewer than 5 individuals were diagnosed and reported as infected in each of these countries and had a HIV type reported. | |||||||
‡Higher estimate is the proportion of patients reported with a HIV type (subtotal) who were HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2; lower estimate is the proportion of all reported patients (total) who were HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2. | |||||||
Nigeria | 387 | 4 | 391 | 155 | 546 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
Ghana | 217 | 15 | 232 | 84 | 316 | 4.7 | 6.5 |
Sierra Leone | 78 | 2 | 80 | 22 | 102 | 2.0 | 2.5 |
Gambia | 39 | 7 | 46 | 14 | 60 | 11.7 | 15.2 |
Liberia, Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal* | 33 | 6 | 39 | 16 | 55 | 10.9 | 15.4 |
Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, country not known† | 15 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 23 | 8.7 | 11.8 |
West Africa total | 917 | 52 | 969 | 355 | 1324 | 3.9 | 5.4 |