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. 2020 Nov 9;22(4):244–253. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13009

Table 2.

HIV‐related characteristics of people living with HIV (PLWH)

Number of patients 1041
HIV transmission mode [n (%)]
Heterosexual contact 310 (29.8)
Male‐to‐male sexual contact 548 (52.6)
Intravenous drug use 140 (13.4)
Other/unknown 43 (4.1)
Time since HIV diagnosis (years) [median (IQR)] 11.6 (6.9–17.5)
Duration of ART (years) [median (IQR)] 9.0 (4.6–13.5)
Subjects receiving ART [n (%)] 1009 (96.9)
Characteristics of the present ART [n (%)]
Subjects taking TDF 167 (16.0)
Subjects taking TAF 534 (51.3)
Subject taking ABC 270 (25.9)
Subjects taking NNRTI 285 (27.4)
Subjects taking PI 203 (19.5)
Subjects taking INSTI 612 (58.8)
Most recent CD4 count (cells/μL) [median (IQR)] 656 (496–851)
CD4 count < 200 [n (%)] 7 (0.7)
CD4 count ≥ 200 to < 350 [n (%)] 63 (6.1)
CD4 count ≥ 350 to < 500 [n (%)] 184 (17.7)
CD4 count ≥ 500 [n (%)] 751 (72.1)
Most recent HIV‐1 RNA [n (%)]
Subjects with < 50 copies/mL 971 (93.4)
Subjects with 50–400 copies/mL 24 (2.3)
Subjects with > 400 copies/mL 4 (0.4)
CD4 nadir count (cells/μL) [median (IQR)] 266 (160–356)
CD4 nadir count < 200 [n (%)] 335 (32.2)
CD4 nadir count ≥ 200 to < 350 [n (%)] 403 (38.7)
CD4 nadir count ≥ 350 to < 500 [n (%)] 170 (16.3)
CD4 nadir count ≥ 500 [n (%)] 91 (8.7)

IQR, interquartile range; ART, antiretroviral therapy; TDF, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate; TAF, tenofovir alafenamide; ABC, abacavir; NNRTI, nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor; PI, protease inhibitor; INSTI, integrase strand transfer inhibitor.