Table 2. Characteristics (clinical, social, HIV testing history, clinical and non-clinical indicators) of patients recently HIV diagnosed at the CMSDS, according to sex (N = 273).
| Women (N = 157) | Men (N = 116) | p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||||
| Clinical and biological characteristics | |||||||
| Clinical stage, WHO Stage 3,4 | 22 | 14.0 | 18 | 15.5 | 0.85 | ||
| Body Mass Index median, [IQR] | 22.6 | [19.5–26.6] | 22.0 | [19.0–24.2] | 0.05 | ||
| CD4 Count /mm3, median, [IQR] | 270 | [137–477] | 254 | [106–436] | 0.19 | ||
| Hemoglobin dl/mm3, median, [IQR] | 11 | [10–12] | 12 | [11–14] | <0.01 | ||
| Individual characteristics | |||||||
| Age years, median, [IQR] | 35 | [30–42] | 40 | [34–48] | <0.01 | ||
| Marital status | <0.01 | ||||||
| Single | 79 | 50.3 | 36 | 31.0 | |||
| Married or living with a partner | 78 | 49.7 | 80 | 69.0 | |||
| Education level | <0.01 | ||||||
| No education or primary | 78 | 49.7 | 28 | 24.1 | |||
| Secondary or higher | 79 | 50.3 | 88 | 75.9 | |||
| Financially independent, yes | 65 | 41.4 | 92 | 79.3 | <0.01 | ||
| Occupation | <0.01 | ||||||
| Formal | 41 | 26.1 | 69 | 59.5 | |||
| Informal | 98 | 62.4 | 36 | 31.0 | |||
| Unemployed or others | 18 | 11.5 | 11 | 9.5 | |||
| Number of sexual partners last month | <0.01 | ||||||
| None | 74 | 47.4 | 52 | 44.8 | |||
| 1 | 78 | 50.0 | 47 | 40.5 | |||
| 2 or more | 4 | 2.6 | 17 | 14.7 | |||
| Has been pregnant during the past 5 years, yes | 13 | 19.7 | - | - | |||
| HIV test and history of testing | |||||||
| Reason for the test that lead to HIV diagnosis | <0.01 | ||||||
| Blood donation | 27 | 17.3 | 42 | 36.5 | |||
| Sickness | 62 | 39.7 | 51 | 44.3 | |||
| Testing without sickness or pregnancyµ | 67 | 42.9 | 22 | 19.1 | |||
| Has already been tested at least once for HIV, yes | 57 | 36.3 | 32 | 27.6 | 0.16 | ||
| Has already refused a test, yes | 11 | 7.0 | 13 | 11.2 | 0.32 | ||
| Has already renounced to do the test, yes | 16 | 10.2 | 12 | 10.3 | 1.00 | ||
| Indicator in the last 5 years | |||||||
| History of hospitalization | 33 | 21.0 | 15 | 12.9 | 0.15 | ||
| History of consultation for clinical symptom potentially related to an HIV infection | 46 | 29.3 | 40 | 34.5 | 0.44 | ||
| History of pregnancy | |||||||
| At least one with medical contact | 30 | 19.1 | - | - | |||
| None with medical contact | 1 | 0.6 | - | - | |||
| History of non-clinical indicator | |||||||
| At least one mentioned to an health professional | 7 | 4.5 | 4 | 3.4 | 0.37 | ||
| None mentioned once to an health professional | 35 | 22.3 | 18 | 15.5 | 0.02 | ||
µ 3 women (1,9%) were diagnosed by a test performed during pregnancy
IQR: interquartile range
n.b.: Percentages presented in the table exclude missing values which were found for WHO stage (18 missing values among men and 24 among women), CD4 count (3 among men and 4 among women), Hemoglobin (3 among both men and women), raison of testing that lead to HIV diagnosis (1 among men and 1 among women), number of sexual partner (1 among women), having mentioned a non-clinical indicator to an health professional (2 among women).