Table 1. Demographics and Selected Other Characteristics, by Region.
| Factor, N (%) or Median | North America |
Europe | South America |
Australia | Asia | Africa | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants | 507 (10.8) | 1539 (32.8) | 1174 (25.1) | 109 (2.3) | 356 (7.6) | 1000 (21.3) | 4685 |
| Demographics | |||||||
| Age, years | 36 | 38 | 32 | 40 | 33 | 38 | 36 |
| < 25 | 78 (15.4) | 93 (6.0) | 200 (17.0) | 3 (2.8) | 61 (17.1) | 65 (6.5) | 500 (10.7) |
| 25-34 | 150 (29.6) | 524 (34.0) | 468 (39.9) | 36 (33.0) | 145 (40.7) | 292 (29.2) | 1615 (34.5) |
| 35-44 | 125 (24.7) | 513 (33.3) | 306 (26.1) | 40 (36.7) | 114 (32.0) | 391 (39.1) | 1489 (31.8) |
| ≥ 45 | 154 (30.4) | 409 (26.6) | 200 (17.0) | 30 (27.5) | 36 (10.1) | 252 (25.2) | 1081 (23.1) |
| Female | 111 (21.9) | 140 (9.1) | 175 (14.9) | 4 (3.7) | 136 (38.2) | 691 (69.1) | 1257 (26.8) |
| Race | |||||||
| Black, male | 172 (33.9) | 51 (3.3) | 107 (9.1) | 2 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 286 (28.6) | 618 (13.2) |
| Black, female | 68 (13.4) | 46 (3.0) | 26 (2.2) | 1 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 651 (65.1) | 792 (16.9) |
| Latino, male | 68 (13.4) | 62 (4.0) | 409 (34.8) | 1 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 540 (11.5) |
| Latina, female | 23 (4.5) | 7 (0.5) | 69 (5.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 99 (2.1) |
| Asian, male | 8 (1.6) | 20 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (4.6) | 216 (60.7) | 0 (0.0) | 249 (5.3) |
| Asian, female | 1 (0.2) | 2 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 136 (38.2) | 0 (0.0) | 139 (3.0) |
| White, male | 144 (28.4) | 1241 (80.6) | 401 (34.2) | 93 (85.3) | 2 (0.6) | 13 (1.3) | 1894 (40.4) |
| White, female | 17 (3.4) | 81 (5.3) | 59 (5.0) | 3 (2.8) | 0 (0.0) | 32 (3.2) | 192 (4.1) |
| Other, male | 4 (0.8) | 25 (1.6) | 82 (7.0) | 4 (3.7) | 2 (0.6) | 10 (1.0) | 127 (2.7) |
| Other, female | 2 (0.4) | 4 (0.3) | 21 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (0.8) | 35 (0.7) |
| Education | |||||||
| < year 12 | 71 (14.0) | 239 (15.5) | 217 (18.5) | 17 (15.6) | 130 (36.5) | 723 (72.3) | 1397 (29.8) |
| completed year 12 | 124 (24.5) | 315 (20.5) | 333 (28.4) | 22 (20.2) | 55 (15.4) | 167 (16.7) | 1016 (21.7) |
| vocational/some college | 192 (37.9) | 506 (32.9) | 356 (30.3) | 19 (17.4) | 56 (15.7) | 85 (8.5) | 1214 (25.9) |
| bachelors or higher | 120 (23.7) | 479 (31.1) | 268 (22.8) | 51 (46.8) | 115 (32.3) | 25 (2.5) | 1058 (22.6) |
| HIV History | |||||||
| Mode of infection | |||||||
| IDU | 24 (4.7) | 32 (2.1) | 3 (0.3) | 4 (3.7) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 64 (1.4) |
| MSM | 302 (59.6) | 1179 (76.6) | 829 (70.6) | 97 (89.0) | 148 (41.6) | 24 (2.4) | 2579 (55.0) |
| Heterosexual | 145 (28.6) | 252 (16.4) | 308 (26.2) | 5 (4.6) | 182 (51.1) | 898 (89.8) | 1790 (38.2) |
| Other/unknowna | 36 (7.1) | 76 (4.9) | 34 (2.9) | 3 (2.8) | 25 (7.0) | 78 (7.8) | 252 (5.4) |
| Years since diagnosis | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 |
| ≤ 0.5 | 140 (27.6) | 406 (26.4) | 579 (49.3) | 24 (22.0) | 143 (40.2) | 249 (24.9) | 1541 (32.9) |
| 0.51 - 1.0 | 78 (15.4) | 309 (20.1) | 197 (16.8) | 25 (22.9) | 38 (10.7) | 121 (12.1) | 768 (16.4) |
| 1.01 - 3.0 | 124 (24.5) | 436 (28.3) | 238 (20.3) | 34 (31.2) | 89 (25.0) | 265 (26.5) | 1186 (25.3) |
| 3.01 - 5.0 | 66 (13.0) | 207 (13.5) | 80 (6.8) | 11 (10.1) | 40 (11.2) | 125 (12.5) | 529 (11.3) |
| > 5.0 | 99 (19.5) | 181 (11.8) | 80 (6.8) | 15 (13.8) | 46 (12.9) | 240 (24.0) | 661 (14.1) |
| Hepatitis | |||||||
| Hepatitis B | 4 (0.8) | 28 (1.9) | 20 (1.7) | 2 (1.9) | 24 (6.8) | 52 (5.2) | 130 (2.9) |
| Hepatitis C | 43 (8.6) | 81 (5.5) | 22 (1.9) | 5 (4.7) | 9 (2.5) | 11 (1.1) | 171 (3.7) |
IDU= injecting drug use; MSM,=men who have sex with men.
a
Other/unknown includes: 0.6% blood products, 1.0% other, 3.8% unknown.