. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 3.

Published in final edited form as: Soc Work Health Care. 2007;46(1):1–19. doi: 10.1300/J010v46n02_01

Table 1.

Demographic Information (n=51)

Demographic Variable	% (n)
Gender Male Female	55% (28) 45% (23)
Race White/Caucasian Black/African American Hispanic/Latino Other	45% (23) 37% (19) 8% (4) 10% (5)
Mode of Acquisition Vertical/Perinatal Transfusion/Hemophilia Unknown	86% (44) 12% (6) 2% (1)
	Mean (range)
Age (years)	15.8 (9 – 25)
Severity of Illness CD4 Cell Count T1 (cells/mm³) CD4 Cell Count T2 (cells/mm³) HIV-1 RNA levelsT1 (copies/ml) HIV-1 RNA levelsT2 (copies/ml)	623 (0 – 2,258) 662 (0 – 2,449) 51,199 (49 – 634,000) 52,206 (49 – 985,000)
Geographic Location:	17 states, 1 Territory 1 District of Columbia