Table 4. Trends in communicable disease mortality rates per 100,000 by gender and age group.

		Female MRa	Male MRa	RRfem (95% CI)	χ2	P value	M:F Ratio
15–24y	2003	500	191	2.61(1.68–4.07)	19.6	<0.001	0.38
	2004	472	174	2.71 (1.71–4.28)	19.7	<0.001	0.37
	2005	415	130	3.18 (1.90–5.33)	21.6	<0.001	0.31
	2006	447	169	2.65 (1.67–4.20)	18.5	<0.001	0.38
	2007	458	73	6.31 (3.34–11.9)	42.3	<0.001	0.16
	2008	276	149	1.85 (1.11–3.08)	5.8	0.016	0.54
	2009	231	140	1.65 (0.96–2.83)	3.3	0.07	0.61
	χ2 LTb	17.80	2.40	MHRRc 2.73 (2.26–3.28); Summary χ2 119.28; p<0.001
	P value	<0.001	0.12
15–19y	2003	230	119	1.93 (0.93–4.03)	3.2	0.07	0.52
	2004	150	130	1.16 (0.53–2.53)	0.1	0.72	0.87
	2005	164	43	3.85 (1.27–11.8)	6.6	0.01	0.26
	2006	133	108	1.23 (0.52–2.90)	0.2	0.63	0.81
	2007	167	43	3.88 (1.28–11.8)	6.7	0.01	0.26
	2008	69	63	1.09 (0.35–3.39)	0.02	0.88	0.91
	2009	72	66	1.09 (0.35–3.39)	0.02	0.88	0.92
	χ2 LTb	8.75	3.48	MHRRc 1.73 (1.22–2.43); Summary χ2 9.39; p = 0.002
	P value	0.003	0.06
20–24y	2003	924	327	3.07 (1.73–5.45)	16.4	<0.001	0.35
	2004	979	256	3.82 (2.09–7.00)	22.0	<0.001	0.26
	2005	794	290	2.74 (1.53–4.91)	12.5	<0.001	0.37
	2006	870	268	3.24 (1.83–5.75)	18.3	<0.001	0.31
	2007	849	119	7.11 (3.24–15.6)	32.6	<0.001	0.14
	2008	545	284	1.92 (1.08–3.41)	5.1	0.02	0.52
	2009	440	258	1.64 (0.88–3.09)	2.4	0.12	0.59
	χ2 LTb	14.96	0.71	MHRRc 2.99 (2.38–3.74); Summary χ2 98.49; p<0.001
	P value	<0.001	0.40

NOTE. RR^fem, Relative risk for females compared with males; CI, confidence interval; χ², chi-squared.

^aMR, mortality rates per 100,000; includes deaths ascribed to HIV, TB, malaria, and other infections (meningitis, pneumonia, gastro-intestinal, typhoid/paratyphoid, sepsis, and rheumatic heart disease).

^bχ² LT, chi-squared for linear trend.

^cMHRR, Mantel Haenszel weighted relative risk, and Greenlands-Robins 95% confidence intervals.