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. 2013 Aug 8;13:736. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-736

Table 2.

Selected demographic and HIV disease characteristics (n = 1873)

  Frequency (%)   Mean (SD)
Age (years)
 
 
46.1 (± 9.2)
Gender
 
 
 
Male
1299 (69.4)
 
 
Female
503 (26.9)
 
 
Transgender/Other
51 (2.8)
 
 
Ancestry (Race/Ethnicity)
 
 
 
African Am/Black
755 (40.3)
 
 
Latina/Latino
425 (22.7)
 
 
White
488 (26.1)
 
 
Other
179 (9.7)
 
 
Education
 
 
 
11th grade or less
491 (26.2)
 
 
High School
735 (39.2)
 
 
2+ yrs College
630 (33.9)
 
 
Income Adequate
495 (21.1)
 
 
HIV Disease Indicators
 
 
 
Year diagnosed with HIV
 
 
2,000 (± 6.6)
Prescribed HIV antiretroviral therapy
1500 (82.3)
 
 
Has AIDS diagnosis
788 (42.1)
 
 
Undetectable Viral Load
1030 (58.1)
 
 
 
Frequency (%)
HIV transmission methoda
Man
Woman
Transgender/Other
Sex HIV+ man
791 (67.5)
396 (83.9)
42 (89.4)
Sex HIV+ woman
349 (33.3)
19 (4.8)
11 (36.7)
Sharing needles
301 (28.3)
122 (28.8)
17 (50)
Blood transfusion
76 (7.6)
41 (10.2)
6 (20.7)
Don’t know 124 (12.8) 34 (8.7) 4 (17.4)

Note. a Participants were asked to list the possible ways they could have been infected with HIV. Responses were not mutually exclusive and participants may have listed multiple modes of transmission. Transgender/Other includes persons identifying as a transman, transwoman, genderqueer, other, or decline to state.