Table 3.
Baseline Demographic, Laboratory and Risk Behavior Characteristics for Index Cases with Acute or Early HIV infection and Recruited Partners
| Recruited Partners HIV Uninfected n = 51 |
Recruited Partners HIV Infected n = 68 |
P-value* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | |||
| Age (median, IQR; n) | 34 ( 28 – 41; 48) | 30 (26 – 35; 68) | 0.040 |
| Male sex (%, n) | 91.7 (44/48) | 98.4 (63/64) | 0.16 |
| Race/ethnicity (%, n) | > 0.2 | ||
| White non-Hispanic
Black non-Hispanic Hispanic Other (including multi-racial) |
68.9 (31/47) 8.9 (4/47) 17.8 (8/47) 4.4 (4/47) |
65.1 (41/63) 3.2 (2/63) 23.8 (15/63) 7.9 (5/63) |
|
| HIV transmission risk | |||
| MSM (%, N) | 87.5 (42/48) | 96.8 (61/63) | 0.074 |
| IDU transmission Risk (%, N) | 0 (0/46) | 3.2 (2/63) | > 0.2 |
|
Self-Reported Risk Behavior in
prior 3 months |
|||
| Number of Partners (median, IQR;
n) |
3 (1 – 5; 41) | 2 (1 – 6; 54) | > 0.2 |
| Condom Use RAI (%, N) | 0.031 | ||
| -Always (100%)
-Usually (50% - 99%) -Sometimes (1% - 49%) -Never (0%) |
5 (1/20) 25 (5/20) 45 (9/20) 25 (5/20) |
26.3 (10/38) 23.7 (9/38) 18.4 (7/38) 31.6 (12/38) |
|
| Methamphetamine use, any route (%, N) |
22.2 (2/9) | 20 (3/15) | > 0.2 |
| Any drug use, any route † (%, N) | 22.2 (2/9) | 26.7 (4/15) | > 0.2 |
*
Overlap excluded (2 persons in separate partnerships: once as an HIV uninfected partner and once as an HIV infected partner)
†
Excluding alcohol and cannabis
Abbreviations: IDU, injection drug use; IQR, interquartile ratio; MSM, men who have sex with men; RAI, receptive anal intercourse; RPR, rapid plasma regain; VL, viral load