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. 2019 Jan 4;14(1):e0210096. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210096

Table 2. Sociodemographic characteristics of diagnosed PLWH in the Ontario HIV Laboratory Cohort, 2015 (N = 16,110).

Characteristic Diagnosed PLWH
n %
Sex (where known)
Female 3,257 20.4%
Male 12,724 79.6%
Age (where known)
<25 469 2.9%
25–34 2,009 12.5%
35–44 3,529 22.0%
45–54 5,737 35.7%
55+ 4,329 26.9%
Period of HIV diagnosis (where known)
Prior to 1996 1,548 13.7%
1996–2000 1,325 11.7%
2001–2005 2,230 19.7%
2006–2010 2,916 25.7%
2011–2015 3,306 29.2%
Race/ethnicity (where known)
White 1,367 51.4%
Black 714 26.9%
Latin American 163 6.1%
East/Southeast Asian 145 5.5%
South Asian 108 4.1%
Indigenous 75 2.8%
Arab/West Asian 46 1.7%
Other/mixed 40 1.5%
HIV exposure category (where known)
MSM 3,787 46.4%
PWID 881 10.8%
Heterosexual 1,515 18.5%
HIV-endemic 1,334 16.3%
No identified risk factor(s) 737 4.6%
Missinga
Sex 129 0.8%
Age 37 0.2%
Period of diagnosis 4,785 29.7%
Race/ethnicity 13,452 84.5%
Exposure category 7,941 49.3%

Diagnosed PLWH are cohort participants not lost to follow-up. All characteristics mutually exclusive, except for MSM and PWID exposure categories.

a Reasons for missing data include 1) ordering providers not filling out requisition forms, 2) race/ethnicity only being collected from 2009 onwards, and 3) information on these characteristics only being collected on diagnostic forms and therefore missing for the 29.7% of participants in 2015 with a VL test only (no linked diagnostic test). MSM = men who have sex with men. PWID = people who use injection drugs. PLWH = people living with HIV.