TABLE 2.
Selected characteristics of persons screened for and diagnosed with HIV infection — Interim Louisiana Hospital, New Orleans, March 2013–December 2013
| Screened for HIV (n = 12,568) | Diagnosed with HIV (n = 102) | Previously diagnosed with HIV (n = 25) | Newly diagnosed with HIV (n = 77) | ||||||
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| Characteristic | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | % of total screened |
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 6,883 | (55) | 77 | (75) | 16 | (64) | 61 | (79) | 0.89 |
| Female | 5,685 | (45) | 25 | (25) | 9 | (36) | 16 | (21) | 0.28 |
| Race | |||||||||
| White | 2,666 | (21) | 18 | (18) | 5 | (20) | 13 | (17) | 0.49 |
| Black | 8,828 | (70) | 74 | (73) | 18 | (72) | 56 | (73) | 0.63 |
| Asian | 98 | (1) | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| AI/AN | 12 | (<1) | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| NHOPI | 8 | (<1) | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Biracial or multiracial | 824 | (7) | 10 | (10) | 2 | (8) | 8 | (10) | 0.97 |
| Unknown* | 132 | (1) | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Ethnicity † | |||||||||
| Hispanic | 697 | (6) | 10 | (10) | 3 | (12) | 7 | (9) | 1.00 |
| Non-Hispanic | 11,675 | (93) | 92 | (90) | 22 | (88) | 70 | (91) | 0.60 |
| Unknown* | 196 | (2) | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Age group (yrs) | |||||||||
| 13–22 | 1,031 | (8) | 7 | (7) | 0 | — | 7 | (9) | 0.68 |
| 23–30 | 2,386 | (19) | 25 | (25) | 3 | (12) | 22 | (29) | 0.92 |
| 31–40 | 2,552 | (20) | 23 | (23) | 5 | (20) | 18 | (23) | 0.71 |
| 41–50 | 2,795 | (22) | 29 | (28) | 11 | (44) | 18 | (23) | 0.64 |
| ≥51 | 3,804 | (30) | 18 | (18) | 6 | (24) | 12 | (16) | 0.32 |
Abbreviations: HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; AI/AN = American Indian/Alaska Native; NHOPI = Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
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“Unknown” includes missing, “don’t know,” and “declined to answer.”
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Ethnicity was defined irrespective of race.