Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of adults with HIV diagnosis for at least 12 months and receiving medical care in the United States, Medical Monitoring Project, 2009.
| Characteristic | Totala (n = 4094) | MSM (n = 1897) | MSW (n = 1016) | WSM (n = 1093) | P for modified Rao-Scott chi-square test |
| Weighted % (95% CI) | Weighted % (95% CI) | Weighted % (95% CI) | Weighted % (95% CI) | ||
| Age at the time of interview (years) | |||||
| 18–29 | 7 (6–8) | 8 (6–9) | 4 (2–5) | 9 (7–11) | <0.001 |
| 30–39 | 17 (15–18) | 16 (14–18) | 12 (10–15) | 21 (18–24) | |
| 40–49 | 40 (38–42) | 41 (39–44) | 39 (36–42) | 39 (35–43) | |
| ≥50 | 36 (35–38) | 35 (33–38) | 45 (42–49) | 31 (28–34) | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| Black, non-Hispanic | 41 (33–49) | 22 (16–28) | 56 (46–67) | 62 (54–70) | <0.001 |
| White, non-Hispanic | 35 (28–41) | 54 (48–61) | 17 (11–23) | 18 (14–22) | |
| Hispanic | 19 (14–24) | 19 (16–22) | 22 (13–32) | 17 (10–24) | |
| Multiracial/other | 5 (4–6) | 5 (4–6) | 5 (3–7) | 3 (2–5) | |
| Education | |||||
| <High school | 23 (20–25) | 9 (7–11) | 36 (33–40) | 34 (31–38) | <0.001 |
| High school | 27 (24–30) | 22 (19–24) | 34 (31–37) | 30 (26–34) | |
| >High school | 50 (46–55) | 69 (65–74) | 30 (25–34) | 36 (32–40) | |
| At or below the poverty levelb | 44 (40–48) | 26 (23–29) | 58 (54–62) | 62 (57–67) | <0.001 |
| Experienced homelessnessb | 9 (8–10) | 6 (5–8) | 14 (11–16) | 8 (7–10) | <0.001 |
| In jail >24 hb | 6 (5–7) | 3 (3–4) | 11 (8–14) | 5 (4–7) | <0.001 |
| Continuous health insurance or coverageb | 72 (67–76) | 72 (66–78) | 71 (65–76) | 74 (69–79) | 0.238 |
| HIV diagnosis ≥5 years earlier | 78 (76–80) | 78 (75–80) | 77 (74–81) | 80 (77–83) | 0.444 |
| Prescribed antiretroviral therapy | 89 (88–91) | 90 (89–92) | 91 (89–93) | 86 (83–89) | 0.006 |
| ≥3 viral load measurementsb | 62 (60–65) | 61 (59–64) | 66 (62–71) | 60 (56–64) | 0.236 |
| All viral load measures in the past year <200 copies/ml | 59 (56–62) | 63 (60–66) | 58 (54–62) | 53 (49–57) | <0.001 |
| Clinical status | |||||
| AIDS or CD4+ cell count 0–199 cells/μl (nadir) | 68 (66–70) | 65 (63–68) | 76 (73–80) | 65 (62–68) | <0.001 |
| No AIDS and CD4+ cell count 200–499 cells/μl (nadir) | 25 (23–27) | 28 (25–31) | 18 (15–21) | 27 (24–29) | |
| No AIDS and CD4+ cell count ≥500 cells/μl (nadir) | 7 (6–8) | 7(5–9) | 5 (4–7) | 8 (6–10) | |
CI, confidence interval; MSM, men have sex with men; MSW, men who have sex with women; WSM, women who have sex with men.
aExcludes persons who reported no sexual behaviour and did not report their sexual orientation as heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. Includes transgender participants (n = 64) and women who have sex with women (n = 26) because sample sizes were too small to provide valid estimates for separate analysis.
bRefers to the 12 months before interview (June 2008–May 2009).