Table 2.

Demographic and health characteristics of HIV-positive persons at lower and higher risk for transmitting HIV

	Lower transmission risk (N=169)		Higher transmission risk (N=87)
Characteristic	N	%	N	%	OR	95% CI
Men	128	77	61	72	Reference
Women	33	20	21	24	0.79	0.18–3.43
Transgender	6	3	3	3	1.06	0.22–4.91
White	10	6	1	1
African American	155	93	83	99
Other race/ethnicity	1	1	0		1.46	0.56–3.80
Gay	74	45	30	36	Reference
Bisexual	24	15	15	18	0.72	0.40–1.29
Heterosexual	68	41	38	46	1.12	0.52–2.38
Currently taking antiretroviral therapies	100	60	54	63	1.11	0.65–1.90
CD4 count <200	18	15	18	29	0.43*	0.20–0.90
Plasma viral loada
Undetectable (<50 copies)	80	47	40	46	1.05	0.62–1.77
Less than 1,000 copies	106	62	59	68	Reference
Greater than 1,000 copies	63	33	28	32	0.79	0.46–1.38
Knows viral load	115	70	54	64	1.32	0.76–2.29
Self-report undetectable	80	66	37	62	0.90	0.48–1.70
Understands meaning of viral load	120	74	50	58	2.05*	1.18–3.58
Sexually transmitted infections since testing HIV positivea	49	29	35	42	1.72*	1.01–2.97
	M	SD	M	SD
Age	45.6	7.7	42.8	8.5	0.97	0.94–1.01
Years of education	12.6	1.8	12.4	2.0	0.94	0.82–1.08
Years since testing HIV+	12.6	7.1	12.5	7.1	0.99	0.96–1.03
HIV symptoms	4.0	3.9	4.0	3.5	0.99	0.93–1.06

Cell sizes vary <1% due to missing values

^*p<0.05

^aAssessed at final follow-up