. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2011 Apr 15;23(3):244–254. doi: 10.1016/j.jana.2011.01.005

Table 2.

Basic survival needs identified for previous 6 months among men and women living with HIV

	Men (N = 489)		Women (N = 165)
Survival Need	N	%	N	%	X²
Housing
Worried about having a place to stay	261	53	66	41	8.1^**
Food insufficiency/hunger
Ran out of food and could not get more	313	64	102	62	0.3
Had to choose between food and medicine	132	27	41	25	0.3
Worried whether food would run out before having money for more	334	69	109	66	0.4
Food bought did not last before having more money	318	65	101	61	0.8
Could not afford to eat balanced meals	300	61	98	59	0.2
Transportation
Unable to get where I needed to go	283	58	85	52	2.0
Unable to get to a clinic when needed to	179	36	64	39	0.3

Note.

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p < .01