Table 1.
Sociodemographic description
| Characteristics | % |
|---|---|
| Age | |
| 22–32 years | 3% |
| 33–43 years | 32% |
| 44–54 years | 53% |
| 55–65 years | 11% |
| 66 and over | 1% |
| Gender | |
| Male | 51% |
| Female | 49% |
| Civil status | |
| Single | 80% |
| Married | 9% |
| Widow | 8% |
| Other | 3% |
| Municipality of residence | |
| Bayamón | 1% |
| Carolina | 1% |
| Guaynabo | 3% |
| San Juan | 80% |
| Trujillo Alto | 4 % |
| Others | 11% |
| Level of education | |
| First to 8th grade | 22% |
| Some high school | 20% |
| High school diploma | 29% |
| Associate degree | 22% |
| Bachelor degree | 3% |
| None | 2% |
| Other | 2% |
| Employment | |
| Employed | 18% |
| Unemployed | 82% |
| Income | |
| Less than 1,000 | 79% |
| From 1,000 to 10,000 | 15% |
| From 10,000 to 20,000 | 3% |
| From 20,000 to 30,000 | 3% |
| Religiousness | |
| Considered themselves a religious person | 84% |
| Not consider themselves a religious person | 16% |
| Health insurance | |
| Yes | 99% |
| No | 1% |
| Mode of HIV transmission | |
| Women infected through unclean needle sharing among intravenous drug users. | 15% |
| Males infected via unprotected sex with other males. | 21% |
| Men infected through unclean needle sharing among intravenous drug users. | 31% |
| Women who reported being infected via multiple routes of transmission (including heterosexual unprotected sex and blood transfusion). | 33% |
| Time living with HIV | |
| 1–5 years | 24% |
| 6–10 years | 17% |
| 11–15 years | 12% |
| 16–20 years | 23% |
| 21–25 years | 14% |
| 26–30 years | 10% |