Table 2.

Demographic Characteristics of Study Participants

Characteristic	Total (n = 812)	Central Hospital (n = 410)	Decentralized Health Units (n = 402)	Chi-square p-value
Age (mean)	38.50	39.45	32.94	0.0001
Gender (%)
Females	37.11	38.24	30.55	0.0000
Males	62.89	61.76	69.45
Race (%)
Black	5.75	5.85	5.17	0.2778
Mulatto	76.96	77.07	76.29
White	12.86	12.44	15.31
Asian	1.83	1.95	1.12
Indigenous	2.60	2.68	2.11
Education (%)
Illiterate	0.50	0.49	0.58	0.3523
Incomplete primary education	23.38	24.39	17.48
Complete primary education	7.71	8.05	5.75
Incomplete secondary education	8.02	7.80	9.29
Complete secondary education	38.26	38.05	39.50
Incomplete tertiary education	9.75	9.27	12.59
Complete tertiary education	9.98	9.51	12.74
Graduate education	2.38	2.44	2.06
Marital status (%)
Never married	55.01	54.15	60.08	0.0037
Married	14.85	15.85	8.96
Divorced/separated	3.21	3.17	3.45
Widow(er)	4.00	4.39	1.73
Lives with partner (but not married)	22.93	22.44	25.79
Sexual Orientation (%)
Heterosexual	67.64	70.17	52.82	0.0016
Homosexual	22.48	20.78	32.40
Bisexual	9.88	9.05	14.77
Employment (%)
Employed	32.52	31.22	40.12	0.0032
Self-employed	16.50	16.59	15.97
Unemployed with no source of income	27.05	25.61	35.50
Unemployed with some financial support	14.98	16.34	0.7
Retired	8.96	10.24	1.4
Income (Brazilian Reais)
Mean monthly income	1314.67	1315.85	1306.72	0.8987
Place of residence (%)
Manaus	85.53	83.66	96.53	0.0000
Outside of Manaus	14.47	16.34	3.47
Patient’s first CD4 count (%)	n = 713	n = 344	n = 369
CD4 equal to 200/mm3 or greater	62.91	60.17	77.73	0.0240
CD4 less than 200/mm3	37.09	39.83	22.27
First CD4 count (mean)	342.08	329.19	411.97	0.000
Viral load in last blood exam (%)	n = 678	n = 338	n = 340
Viral load equal to 1000/mL or less	76.8	76.33	79.54	0.000
Viral load over 1000/mL	23.2	23.67	20.46