Table 1: Baseline demographic characteristics and associated mortality and opportunistic infections of 340 HIV-infected patients in Jimma University specialized hospital, from January 2006 to December 2011.

Characteristics	Number of patients [%]	Number of deaths[%]	Number of OI [%]
Sex
Male	140[41.2]	19[45.2]	38[45.8]
Female	200[58.8]	23[54.8]	45[54.2]
BMI
<18.5	170[50]	25[59.5]	55[66.3]
≥18.5	170[50]	17[40.5]	28[33.7]
Religion
Orthodox	203[59.7]	29[69]	44[53]
Muslim	100[29.4]	13[31]	26[31.3]
Protestant	31[9.1]	0	11[13.3]
Catholic	2[0.6]	0	1[1.2]
Others	2[0.6]	0	0
Age(years)
<30	174[51.2]	21[50.0]	46[55.4]
30-39	94[27.6]	11[26.2]	21[25.3]
40-49	57[16.8]	6[14.3]	12[14.5]
>50	15[4.4]	4[9.5]	4[4.8]
Marital status
Single	43[12.6]	7[16.7]	10[12.0]
Married	116[34.1]	16[38.1]	36[43.4]
Widowed	22[6.5]	1[2.4]	5[6.0]
Divorced	44[12.9]	8[19.0]	9[10.8]
Occupation
Gov’t employee	98[28.8]	14[33.3]	19[22.9]
Merchant	5[1.5]	0[0]	2[2.4]
Unemployed	189[55.6]	25[59.5]	51[61.4]
Private org	37[10.9]	2[4.8]	10[12.0]
NGO’s	5[1.5]	1[2.4]	0[0]
Educational status
Not educated	69[20.3]	4[9.5]	24[28.9]
Primary	122[35.9]	17[40.5]	25[30.1]
Secondary	106[31.2]	14[33.3]	21[25.3]
Tertiary	42[12.4]	7[1.7]	12[14.4]