Table 1. Characteristics of HIV-infected New Yorkers with ≥2 viral load tests and all persons diagnosed and presumed living, New York City1.
| Characteristic | Subcategory | PLWHAwith ≥2 testsN (%) | All PLWHAas of 12/2005N (%) |
| Overall | 56,836 | 98,704 | |
| Risk 2 | |||
| MSM | 17,076 (30) | 29,559 (30) | |
| IDU | 12,624 (22) | 22,703 (23) | |
| Other/Unknown | 15,520 (27) | 28,422 (29) | |
| Heterosexual | 11,616 (20) | 17,887 (18) | |
| Age in years | |||
| Mean (Med) | 44 (44) | 44 (44) | |
| Sex | |||
| Female | 18,661 (33) | 29,920 (30) | |
| Male | 38,175 (67) | 68,651 (70) | |
| Race/ethnicity 3 | |||
| Non-Hispanic Black | 26,214 (46) | 44,310 (45) | |
| Non-Hispanic White | 11,121 (20) | 20,543 (21) | |
| Hispanic | 19,177 (34) | 31,812 (33) | |
| Other | 324 (<1) | 802 (<1) | |
| Borough of residence 4 | |||
| Bronx | 14,105 (25) | 21, 409 (22) | |
| Brooklyn | 15,291 (27) | 24,376 (25) | |
| Manhattan | 18,638 (33) | 29,807 (30) | |
| Queens | 7,752 (14) | 13,596 (14) | |
| Staten Island | 1,050 (2) | 1,780 (<2) | |
| Outside of NYC | 0 | 7,589 (8) | |
| Unknown/Missing | 0 | 14 (<1) | |
| Concurrent HIV/AIDS diagnosis | |||
| Yes | 13,359 (24) | 25,246 (26) | |
| No | 43,477 (76) | 73,458 (74) | |
| Time since diagnosis in years | |||
| Mean (Median) | 8 (7) | 8 (7) | |
| AIDS as of 2005 | |||
| N (%) | 21,978 (62) | 59,486 (60) | |
| Time since AIDS in years | |||
| Mean (Median) | 6 (6) | 7 (7) | |
| VL tests from 2006 to 2007 | |||
| Mean (Median) | 6 (6) | 5 (5) |
VL, viral load. NYC, New York City. PLWHA, persons living with HIV/AIDS. MSM, men who have sex with men. IDU, intravenous drug users.
Data as reported to the NYC DOHMH by December 31, 2009.
Includes persons who had heterosexual sex with an HIV-infected person, an injection drug user, or a person who has received blood products. For females only, heterosexual sex also includes sex with a male and at least one of the following: history of commercial sex work, multiple male sex partners, sexually transmitted disease, crack/cocaine use, sex with a bisexual male, probable heterosexual transmission as noted in a medical chart, or negative history of injection drug use.
NYC DOHMH collects race and ethnicity data that meet federal standards of classification and maintains ethnicity data separately from race information. Persons of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity have a separate race classification. Due to small numbers, persons reporting more than one race, Native Americans or Alaska Natives, Hawaiian Natives, Asian, and Pacific Islanders were classified as ‘Other’.
Borough of residence refers to the residence at HIV diagnosis for persons living with HIV (non-AIDS) or residence at AIDS diagnosis for PLWHA.