Impact of housing on the survival of persons with AIDS

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Characteristics of persons diagnosed with AIDS in San Francisco, 1996–2006, by housing status at diagnosis (N = 6558)

Characteristics	Homeless		Non-Homeless
	(N = 641)		(N = 5917)
	N	%	N	%	P value*
Gender					<0.0001
Male	497	77.54	5363	90.64
Female	94	14.66	399	6.74
Transgender	50	7.80	155	2.62
Age at diagnosis (years)					0.0003
13–29	83	12.95	539	9.11
30–39	255	39.78	2361	39.90
40–49	229	35.73	2032	34.34
50+	74	11.54	985	16.65
Race/ethnicity					<0.0001
White	260	40.56	3646	61.62
African American	252	39.31	963	16.28
Latino	106	16.54	944	15.95
Asian/Pacific Islander/Native American/Other	23	3.59	364	6.15
Risk group					<0.0001
Men who have sex with men	135	21.06	4098	69.26
Injection drug user	257	40.09	634	10.71
Men who have sex with men and inject drugs	213	33.23	881	14.89
Heterosexual/Other	36	5.62	304	5.14
Insurance status					<0.0001
Public	212	33.07	1205	20.37
Private	7	1.09	2628	44.41
None	408	63.65	1906	32.21
Unknown	14	2.18	178	3.01
Initial AIDS diagnosis					0.3518
CD4 count <200 cells/mm³	503	78.47	4735	80.02
Opportunistic illness	138	21.53	1182	19.98
CD4 count at diagnosis (mean cells/mm ³ ) ^†		172		184	0.0346
Ever received highly active antiretroviral therapy					<0.0001
Yes	454	70.83	4870	82.31
No	187	29.17	1047	17.69
Ever received prophylaxis against *Pneumocystis jirovecii* pneumonia
Yes	417	65.05	3384	57.19	0.0001
No	224	34.95	2533	42.81
Ever received prophylaxis against *Mycobacterium avium* complex
Yes	173	26.99	1099	18.57	<0.0001
No	468	73.01	4818	81.43

* Chi square test for differences in proportions and t test for differences in means.
† Excludes 205 cases that were missing CD4 results.

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