Table 2.

Demographic and health characteristics of food secure and food insecure people living with HIV/AIDS

	Food secure (N = 166)		Food insecure (N = 178)
	N	%	N	%	OR	95%CI
Men	133	80	135	76
Women	33	20	43	24	1.3	0.8–2.1
African American	155	93	162	91	0.8	0.5–1.4
Heterosexual	68	41	78	44	Reference
Gay	73	44	72	41	0.8	0.5–1.3
Bisexual	25	15	26	15	0.9	0.5–1.7
Unemployed	130	78	155	87	1.9*	1.1–.33
Looking for work	44	32	84	50	0.5**	0.3–0.7
Income under $1,000/month	122	77	143	84	0.6	0.3–1.1
Homeless of living in shelter	16	10	27	15	1.7	0.9–3.2
Worried about having a place to live in the past year	53	32	133	75	6.3**	3.9–10.1
Undetectable viral loada	87	52	72	40	1.7*	1.1–3.0
Most recent viral loadb
Stayed the same	72	44	44	25	Reference
Increased	27	16	37	20	2.2**	1.2–4.2
Decreased	43	26	54	30	2.1**	1.1–4.6
Most recent T cellsc
Stayed the same	25	17	21	14	Reference
Increased	90	62	72	48	0.6	0.3–1.1
Decreased	30	21	57	38	1.3	0.6–2.9
Currently taking HIV treatments	110	67	98	55	1.7*	1.1–2.5
	M	SD	M	SD	t
Age	45.3	7.9	43.5	7.7	2.1*
Education	12.7	1.9	12.5	2.0	1.4
Years since testing HIV positive	14.2	6.9	12.4	2.3	2.3*
HIV symptoms	2.9	3.2	5.0	3.8	5.5**
Most recent CD4 cell countc	512.7	316.1	422.3	314.3	2.2*
Self-report adherence rating	92.7	13.1	84.7	22.5	3.2**
Unannounced pill count adherence	89.8	14.8	81.4	22.9	2.7**

*p < .05 **p < .01

^a Based on 249 participants who knew their viral load

^b Based on 277 participants who knew of changes in their most recent viral load

^c Based on 275 participants who knew their CD4 cell count