Table 1.

General Patient Characteristics.

Variable Number (n=180) Percent
Gender
 Female 138 76.7
 Male 42 23.3

Marital status
 Married 69 38.3
 Widow(er) 57 31.7
 Single 32 17.8
 Divorced 22 12.2

Employment status
 Unemployed 103 57.2
 Self-employed 41 22.8
 Official 14 7.8
 Other 22 12.2

Level of education
 Primary or less 28 15.7
 Secondary 129 71.5
 Higher or university 23 12.8

Duration of HIV infection (years), median (IQR) 3 (1–20)

Clinical stage of HIV infection
 I 18 10.0
 II 55 30.6
 III 83 46.1
 IV 24 13.3

CD4 count (cells/mm3), median (IQR) 303 (2–1133)

Antiretroviral therapy treatment
 No treatment 20 11.1
 AZT+3TC+NVP 133 73.9
 TDF+3TC+EFV 20 11.1
 ABC+DDI+[Aluvia or LPV/r] 7 3.9

3TC, lamivudine; ABC, abacavir; AZT, zidovudine; DDI, didanosine; EFV, efavirenz; IQR, interquartile range; LPV, lopinavir; NVP, nevirapine; TDF, tenofovir.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2022; 13(3): e0016. ISSN: 2076-9172
Published online 2022 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10474