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]