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Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2013 Mar 27;27(6):981–989. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32835cb927

Table 1.

Summary of mean HIV-1 plasma RNA viral load by region.

Region		CD4 count cells/μL
Region		<200	200–349	350–500	>500
North America	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	4.81	4.18	4.21	3.65
	Sample size (N)	3,758	1,966	3,199	4,700
Europe	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	4.81	4.27	4.04	3.71
	Sample size (N)	8,754	9,047	7,674	7,463
Asia	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	4.90	4.50	4.20	3.80
	Sample size (N)	129	359	474	908
South America	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	4.17	4.58	4.23	3.90
	Sample size (N)	46	135	114	99
West Africa	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	5.33	4.67	4.25	3.83
	Sample size (N)	194	156	136	131
East Africa	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	5.15	4.45	4.33	4.18
	Sample size (N)	510	220	510	510
Southern Africa	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	4.90	4.60	4.43	4.10
	Sample size (N)	377	515	424	452
South Africa	Mean HIV RNA (log₁₀ copies/mL)	4.53	4.18	4.08	3.66
	Sample size (N)	5,260	2,243	4,140	1,438