Table 2. Showing age, CD4 cell count and eligibility distribution by sex among 4,113 HIV-positive individuals.
| Country | Kenya | Malawi | South Africa | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | N(%) | Male n(%) | Female n(%) | P value | N(%) | Male n(%) | Female n(%) | P value | N(%) | Male n(%) | Female n(%) | P value |
| Total | 1457 | 457 | 1000 | - | 1233 | 394 | 839 | - | 1423 | 338 | 1085 | - |
| Age group | ||||||||||||
| 15–19 | 62 (4.3) | 7 (1.7) | 55 (5.2) | <0.001 | 28 (2.3) | 7 (1.6) | 21 (2.3) | 0.002 | 70 (4.9) | 12 (3.1) | 58 (5.2) | 0.06 |
| 20–34 | 701 (48.1) | 158 (33.7) | 543 (54.4) | 470 (38.1) | 116 (30.4) | 354 (41.6) | 677 (47.6) | 140 (42.0) | 537 (49.3) | |||
| 35–44 | 284 (26.4) | 152 (32.6) | 232 (23.4) | 452 (36.7) | 165 (41.4) | 287 (34.6) | 386 (27.1) | 105 (30.0) | 281 (26.7) | |||
| 45–59 | 310 (21.3) | 140 (31.9) | 170 (17.0) | 283 (23.0) | 106 (26.6) | 177 (21.6) | 290 (20.4) | 81 (25.0) | 209 (18.8) | |||
| CD4 cell count | ||||||||||||
| < = 350 | 419 (28.8) | 165 (39.5) | 254 (28.1) | <0.001 | 336 (27.3) | 151 (40.8) | 185 (22.8) | <0.001 | 387 (27.2) | 141 (44.3) | 246 (23.1) | <0.001 |
| 351–500 | 342 (23.5) | 115 (26.8) | 227 (23.0) | 300 (24.3) | 95 (25.7) | 205 (24.9) | 362 (25.4) | 81 (23.5) | 281 (26.2) | |||
| 501+ | 615 (42.2) | 146 (33.7) | 269 (49.0) | 545 (44.2) | 122 (33.4) | 423 (52.4) | 651 (45.8) | 110 (32.2) | 541 (50.7) | |||
| Missing | 81 (5.6) | 31 | 50 | 52 (4.2) | 26 | 26 | 23 (1.6) | 6 | 17 | |||
| Eligibility | ||||||||||||
| Ever ART | 587 (40.3) | 189 (44.0) | 398 (40.8) | 0.01 | 653 (53.0) | 208 (55.4) | 445 (54.2) | - | 758 (53.3) | 175 (50.6) | 583 (54.5) | - |
| CD4< = 350 | 242 (16.6) | 91 (21.1) | 151 (17.1) | 153 (12.4) | 77 (20.7) | 76 (9.0) | 188 (13.2) | 75 (25.0) | 113 (10.6) | |||
| Pregnant + CD4>350 | - | - | - | 21 (1.7) | - | 21 (2.5) | 37 (2.6) | - | 37 (3.3) | |||
| Breastfeeding + CD4>350 | - | - | - | 132 (10.7) | - | 132 (16.3) | 44 (3.1) | - | 44 (4.2) | |||
| CD4 351–500 | 178 (12.2) | 57 (13.9) | 212 (12.4) | 89 (7.2) | 41 (11.1) | 48 (5.9) | 146 (10.3) | 34 (10.0) | 112 (10.4) | |||
| CD4 501+ | 373 (25.6) | 91 (21.0) | 282 (29.8) | 142 (11.5) | 47 (12.7) | 95 (12.1) | 231 (16.2) | 50 (14.5) | 181 (16.9) | |||
| Missing | 77 (5.3) | 29 | 48 | 43 (3.5) | 21 | 22 | 19 (1.3) | 4 | 15 | |||