Table 1. Characteristics of all 6582 patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Israel, 1983–2010.

Characteristic		N (%)
Males		4208 (63.9)
Years from arrival in Israel to HIV diagnosis (median, range in years)		2.0, 0–64
Age in HIV notification (mean ± standard deviation, in years)*		34.0±11.3
Non-Israeli born citizens		3942 (59.8)
Israeli citizens		5506 (83.6)
Country/place of birth	Israel	1564 (23.7)
	Africa	2873 (43.7)
	Former Soviet-Union	1028 (15.6)
	Europe	204 (3.1)
	Asia	138 (2.1)
	Others	671 (10.2)
Risk group	Heterosexuals originating in GEC	2717 (41.3)
	Heterosexuals not originating in GEC	796 (12.1)
	Men who have sex with men	1403 (21.3)
	Injecting drug users	882 (13.4)
	Mother to child transmission	206 (3.1)
	Blood recipients/hemophilic	109 (1.7)
	Unknown	466 (7.1)
Died during follow up		1146 (17.4)
Most likely to be infected in Israel$		3280 (49.8)

^*Excluding those who were vertically infected and those whose age was at diagnosis was unknown (the data presented here include 5905 (89.7%) of all HIV/AIDS cases in Israel).

^$According to the interviews performed during the epidemiological investigations.