Demographic and health characteristics of men and women living with HIV-AIDS and diagnoses or symptoms of an STI in the past 3 months
| Men | Women | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not sexually active (n=61) | Sexually active no STI (n=124) | Sexually active with STI (n=42) | Not sexually active (n=26) | Sexually active no STI (n=46) | Sexually active with STI (n=40) | ||||||||||
| No | % | No | % | No | % | p | No | % | No | % | No | % | p | pa | |
| Ethnic minority | 49 | 80 | 90 | 73 | 35 | 83 | ns | 24 | 92 | 44 | 96 | 34 | 85 | ns | ns |
| Income <$20 000 | 56 | 92 | 96 | 78 | 37 | 88 | 0.05 | 24 | 92 | 37 | 82 | 40 | 100 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Sexual orientation | |||||||||||||||
| Homosexual | 33 | 54 | 79 | 64 | 25 | 61 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Bisexual | 7 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 8 | |||
| Heterosexual | 21 | 34 | 29 | 23 | 11 | 72 | ns | 20 | 77 | 36 | 78 | 34 | 90 | ns | ns |
| AIDS diagnosis | 41 | 84 | 81 | 83 | 32 | 91 | ns | 21 | 88 | 29 | 78 | 33 | 92 | ns | ns |
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p for differences within sex groups and pa for differences between STI groups collapsing across sexes. | |||||||||||||||
| Age | 41.9 | 6.8 | 40.4 | 7.4 | 38.3 | 6.8 | 0.05 | 41.4 | 8.6 | 39.7 | 6.9 | 38.8 | 7.2 | ns | 0.01 |
| Education | 12.8 | 2.1 | 13.4 | 2.3 | 12.2 | 2.0 | 0.01 | 11.7 | 1.8 | 12.5 | 2.2 | 11.7 | 2.4 | ns | 0.01 |
| Years HIV positive | 7.8 | 5.5 | 7.9 | 4.6 | 7.8 | 5.3 | ns | 4.9 | 2.8 | 6.8 | 4.5 | 7.6 | 4.4 | 0.05 | ns |
| CD4 count (×106/l) | 368 | 374 | 400 | 48 2 | 282 | 339 | ns | 448 | 312 | 498 | 256 | 629 | 158 4 | ns | ns |
| Log viral load | 3.6 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 1.8 | 4.0 | 1.4 | ns | 3.3 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 2.2 | ns | ns |