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. 2016 Dec 7;9:501. doi: 10.1186/s13104-016-2317-7

Table 3.

Chi squared test for the difference in OI prevalence by gender before and after HAART

Prevalence p value
Women (n = 16,519), n (%) Men (n = 7848), n (%)
Before HAART (2001–2003)
 Opportunistic infection
  Oral candida 5987 (36.2) 2449 (31.2) <0.0001
  Diarrhoea 5164 (31.3) 2295 (29.2) <0.0001
  Geohelminths 4544 (27.5) 1912 (24.4) <0.0001
  Mycobacterium tuberculosis 2769 (16.8) 1544 (19.7) <0.0001
  Confirmed malaria 2582 (15.6) 1087 (13.9) <0.0001
  Bacterial pneumonia 1928 (11.7) 809 (10.3) <0.0001
  Esoph candida 1620 (9.8) 567 (7.2) <0.0001
  Genital ulcer 1430 (8.7) 433 (5.5) <0.0001
  Herpes zoster 1011 (6.1) 418 (5.3) 0.025
  Cryptosporidiosis 624 (3.8) 271 (3.5) 0.076
  Cryptococcosis 275 (1.7) 152 (1.9) 0.702
  Others 301 (1.8) 90 (1.1) 0.019
 Opportunistic cancer
  Kaposi’s sarcoma/HHV8 114 (0.7) 95 (1.2) 0.068
Prevalence p value
Women (n = 38,599), n (%) Men (n = 20,232), n (%)
Early HAART (2004–2008)
 Opportunistic infection
  Geohelminths 13,205 (34.2) 5858 (29.0) <0.0001
  Diarrhoea 10,231 (26.5) 4812 (23.8) <0.0001
  Oral candida 7710 (20.0) 2961 (14.6) <0.0001
  Mycobacterium tuberculosis 3419 (16.9) 7262 (18.8) <0.0001
  Bacterial pneumonia 1741 (8.6) 2839 (7.4) <0.0001
  Genital ulcer 4461 (11.6) 1660 (8.2) <0.0001
  Esoph candida 3872 (10.0) 1456 (7.2) <0.0001
  Confirmed malaria 2482 (6.4) 1111 (5.5) 0.023
  Herpes zoster 2606 (6.8) 1152 (5.7) 0.037
  Cryptosporidiosis 1373 (3.6) 662 (3.3) 0.061
  Cryptococcosis 602 (1.6) 332 (1.6) 0.097
  Others 1260 (3.3) 539 (2.7) 0.06
 Opportunistic cancer
  Kaposi’s sarcoma/HHV8 347 (0.9) 330 (1.6) 0.012
Prevalence p value
Women (n = 40,335), n (%) Men (n = 22,547), n (%)
Late HAART (2009–2011)
 Opportunistic infection
  Geohelminths 9951 (24.7) 4852 (21.5) <0.0001
  Diarrhoea 6056 (15.0) 2917 (12.9) <0.0001
  Oral candida 3063 (7.6) 1446 (6.4) 0.029
  Bacterial pneumonia 2895 (7.2) 1453 (6.4) 0.045
  Genital ulcer 2581 (6.4) 1202 (5.3) 0.017
  Mycobacterium tuberculosis 2101 (5.2) 1489 (6.6) 0.024
  Confirmed malaria 1595 (4.0) 789 (3.5) 0.540
  Herpes zoster 1522 (3.8) 748 (3.3) 0.490
  Esoph candida 1163 (2.9) 594 (2.6) 0.046
  Cryptosporidiosis 464 (1.2) 231 (1.0) 0.792
  Cryptococcosis 251 (0.6) 166 (0.7) 0.09
  Others 759 (1.9) 390 (1.7) 0.102
 Opportunistic cancer
  Kaposi’s sarcoma/HHV8 150 (0.4) 160 (0.7) 0.015

HHV8 human herpes virus 8, n number of patients