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. 2023 Feb 12;20:10. doi: 10.1186/s12981-022-00488-7

Table 2.

Patient’s situation data sorted by location, expressed as the percentage of affirmative answers

Section Parameter assessed Africa CSA WE SEEE Sig
General information Median age 54.6 57.4 57.5 60.3
Good Overall health perception 90.0 86.8 73.6 72.5 0.034
Retired 61.9 35.2 43.8 56.7 0.001
Exercise Minimum 65.3 66.5 64.8 69.4 0.500
Regular 54.3 46.7 40.2 50.8 0.040
Regular eating habit 90.5 80.9 93.8 92.1 0.010
Struggles to remember taking ART 19.0 15.3 9.8 10.7 0.384
Undetectable viral load 95.2 90.1 96.9 49.1  < 0.001
Living alone 23.8 31.9 26.5 40.2 0.005
HIV status sharing 90.5 76.4 63.7 41.9  < 0.001
Financial problems 90.5 46.4 30.2 45.6  < 0.001
Psychological problems Weariness 38.9 37.1 45.8 41.3 0.554
Depression 52.6 25.4 24.5 37.2  < 0.001
Loneliness 45.0 23.2 22.3 33.1 0.010
Memory problems 33.3 20.6 36.7 20.4  < 0.001
Mean score 42.5 26.6 32.3 33.0
Social sphere Active social life 71.4 71.8 80.1 49.4  < 0.001
Active sexual life 35.0 54.2 55.4 46.0 0.069
Has Friends and Family 85.7 98.6 91.6 73.7  < 0.001
Mean score 64.0 74.9 75.7 56.4
Specific/geriatric conditions Sleep 35.0 38.9 38.5 42.7- 0.702
Hearing 15.0 21.4 25.2 24.5 0.715
Visual 73.7 58.3 58.7 48.1 0.017
Mobility 30.0 16.7 21.3 28.5 0.077
Sexual 15.0 23.5 21.4 30.3 0.079
Mean score 33.7 31.8 33.0 34.8

CSA Center and South America, WE Western Europe, SEEE South Eastern and Eastern Europe