Impact of housing on the survival of persons with AIDS

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Characteristics of homeless persons with AIDS who did and did not receive health department supportive housing, in San Francisco, 1996–2006 (N = 676)*

Characteristics	Received Supportive Housing
	Yes		No
	(N = 70)		(N = 606)
	N	%	N	%	P value^†
Gender					0.1448
Male	48	68.57	472	77.89
Female	16	22.86	86	14.19
Transgender	6	8.57	48	7.92
Age at diagnosis (years)					0.0637
13–29	8	11.43	82	13.53
30–39	22	31.43	244	40.26
40–49	25	35.71	214	35.31
50+	15	21.43	66	10.89
Race/ethnicity					0.5319
White	27	38.57	248	40.92
African American	28	40.00	237	39.11
Latino	10	14.29	99	16.34
Asian/Pacific Islander/Native American/Other	5	7.14	22	3.63
Risk group					0.2825
Men who have sex with men	19	27.14	123	20.30
Injection drug user	31	44.29	241	39.77
Men who have sex with men and inject drugs	17	24.29	207	34.16
Heterosexual/Other	3	4.29	35	5.78
Insurance status					0.0695
Public	26	37.14	205	33.83
Private	3	4.29	5	0.83
None	40	57.14	383	63.20
Unknown	1	1.43	13	2.15
Initial AIDS diagnosis					0.9964
CD4 count <200 cells/mm³	55	78.57	476	78.55
Opportunistic illness	15	21.43	130	21.45
CD4 count at diagnosis (mean cells/mm ³ ) ^‡		176		172	0.8368
Ever received highly active antiretroviral therapy					0.1052
Yes	56	80.00	429	70.79
No	14	20.00	177	29.21
Ever received prophylaxis against *Pneumocystis jirovecii* pneumonia					0.7236
Yes	47	67.14	394	65.02
No	23	32.86	212	34.98
Ever received prophylaxis against *Mycobacterium avium* complex					0.9886
Yes	19	27.14	164	27.06
No	51	72.86	442	72.94

* Includes 35 additional cases not originally recorded as homeless at diagnosis but who matched with the housing database and had a move-in date that was later than the AIDS diagnosis date.
†Chi square test for differences in proportions and t test for differences in means.
‡Excludes 23 cases that were missing CD4 results.

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