Table 1.

Characteristics of study population

Characteristic
Sex (F / M)	56 / 41
Age (Mean ± SD), yrs	36 ± 9
Employed (Yes/No)	74 / 23
Residence (Urban/Rural)	54/43
Marital status, n (%)
Married	69 (71.1)
Single/Widowed/Separated/Divorced	28 (28.9)
Educational status, n (%)
None/Informal	23 (23.7)
Primary	28 (28.9)
Secondary	33 (34.0)
Tertiary	13 (13.4)
CD4 cell count (cell/µL), n (%)
≥500	28 (28.9)
200–499	39 (40.2)
<200	30 (30.9)
Clinical presentation, n (%)
Patients with fever irrespective of MP	38 (39.2)
Patients with MP irrespective of fever	24 (24.7)
Patients with fever and parasitaemia	15 (15.5)
Patients with clinical malaria†	10 (10.3%)

MP= malaria parasitaemia.

^†Clinical malaria was defined as having fever and malaria parasite density > 1,400 parasites/µL which was the median parasite density among patients with co-existing fever and parasitaemia.