Table 1.

Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of adult HIV-infected patients, Riruta Health Centre, 2016

Characteristic	CombinedNo. (%)	FemaleNo. (%)	MaleNo. (%)	p-value
N	360	241	119
Age-group (years)
18-24	11 (3.1)	9 (81.8)	2 (18.2)	0.285
25-34	90 (25.0)	72 (80.0)	18 (20.0)	0.002
35-44	126 (35.0)	85 (67.5)	41 (32.5)	0.881
45-54	101 (28.1)	57 (56.4)	44 (43.6)	0.008
>55	32 (9.9)	18 (56.2)	14 (43.8)	0.177
Highest level of education
No education	18 (5.0)	15 (83.3)	3 (16.7)	0.129
Primary incomplete	82 (22.8)	61 (74.4)	21 (25.6)	0.103
Primary complete	109 (30.3)	75 (68.8)	34 (31.2)	0.617
Secondary/ Tertiary	151 (41.9)	90 (59.6)	61 (40.4)	0.012
Marital status
Never Married	37 (10.3)	31 (83.8)	6 (16.2)	0.021
Married	190 (52.8)	93 (48.9)	97 (51.1)	<0.001
Living together/Cohabiting	5 (1.4)	5 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0.114
Divorced/ Separated	80 (22.2)	70 (87.5)	10 (12.5)	<0.001
Widowed	48 (13.3)	42 (87.5)	6 (12.5)	0.001
Religion
Muslim	9 (2.5)	7 (80.0)	0 (0.0)	0.060
Protestant/ Other Christian	266 (73.9)	186 (69.9)	80 (30.1)	0.043
Roman Catholic	75 (20.8)	42 (56.0)	33 (44.0)	0.024
No religion	4 (1.1)	0 (0.0)	4 (100.0)	0.004
Other	6 (1.7)	6 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0.082
Occupation
Employed/Self Employed	198 (55.0)	125 (63.1)	73 (36.9)	0.089
Student	3 (0.8)	2 (66.7)	1 (33.3)	0.992
Unemployed	54 (15.0)	48 (88.9)	6 (11.1)	<0.001
Unskilled labor	105 (29.2)	66 (62.3)	39 (37.7)	0.289
Residence
Rural	3 (0.8)	1 (33.3)	2 (66.7)	0.215
Urban	357 (99.2)	240 (67.2)	117 (32.8)	0.215
On Antiretroviral treatment (ART)
Yes	355 (98.6)	236 (66.5)	119 (33.5)	0.114
No	5 (1.4)	5 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0.114
WHO stage
1	334 (92.8)	221 (66.2)	113 (33.8)	0.263
2	7 (1.9)	6 (85.7)	1 (14.3)	0.285
3	6 (1.7)	4 (66.7)	2 (33.3)	0.992
4	1 (0.3)	1 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0.484
Number of years on ART mean ± SD	4.5 ± 3.2	4.5 ± 3.1	4.6 ± 3.4	0.781
CD4 Count mean ± SD	357.8 ± 223.6	393.2 ± 234.9	286.5 ±179.6	<0.0001

A total of 12 patients (3.3%): 9 female and 3 male did not have a WHO stage recorded in their files