Table 3. HIV-specific prevalence of haemoglobin types in infants, north-western United Republic of Tanzania, February 2017–May 2018.
| HIV status | Total | No. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Sickle cell trait | Sickle cell disease | ||
| Negative | 15 747 | 12 388 (78.7) | 3167 (20.1) | 192 (1.2) |
| Positive |
732 |
563 (76.9) |
160 (21.9) |
9 (1.2) |
| Total | 16 479a | 12 951 (78.6) | 3327 (20.2) | 201 (1.2) |
HIV: human immunodeficiency virus.
a Only specimens for which HIV test results were available are included.
Note: We used isoelectric focusing to detect different haemoglobin types in infants aged 0–24 months.