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.