Table 1 Epidemiological, clinical and social characteristics.

From: Direct collaboration between hospitals and NGOs, an essential tool to reinforce linkage to care in people living with HIV

 

New diagnosis (n = 203)

Follow up (n = 297)

Overall (n = 500)

 

NGO

(n = 21)

No NGO

(n = 182)

p

NGO

(n = 67)

No NGO

(n = 230)

p

NGO

(n = 88)

No NGO

(n = 412)

p

Age (years)

30 (25–38)

36 (30–45)

0.007

30 (28–36)

37 (30–49)

0.0000

30 (28–36)

37 (30–47)

0.0000

Sex

 Men

20 (95%)

154 (85)

0.18

63

191

0.024

83 (94%)

345 (84%)

0.0103

 Women

0

21 (11%)

78

(94%)

(83%)

5

0

50 (12%)

0.0006

 Trans women

1 (5%)

7 (4%)

0.1002

0

29 (13%)

0.0022

5(6%)

17 (4%)

0.5184

  

0.8382

4 (6%)

10 (4%)

0.5814

   

Country of origin

 Spain

3 (14%)

81 (44%)

0.0078

0

73 (32%)

0.0000

3 (3%)

154 (37%)

0.0000

 Rest of Europe

0

5 (3%)

0.4418

2 (3%)

15 (6%)

0.2728

2 (2%)

20 (5%)

0.2838

 Venezuela

7 (33%)

24 (13%)

0.0151

18 (27%)

38 (16%)

0.0568

25(29%)

62 (15%)

0.0027

 Colombia

4 (19%)

9 (5%)

0.0124

26 (39%)

24 (10%)

0.0000

30 (34%)

33 (8%)

0.0000

 Peru

3 (15%)

14 (8%)

0.3017

7 (10%)

18 (8%)

0.4964

10 (12%)

32 (8%)

0.2695

 Rest of latinamerica

4 (19%)

32 (18%)

0.8678

13 (19%)

50 (22%)

0.6806

17 (19%)

82 (20%)

0.9006

 Morroco

0

10 (5%)

0.2706

0

2 (1%)

0.4438

0

12 (3%)

0.1051

 Subsaharan Africa

0

4 (2%)

0.4926

0

6 (3%)

0.1817

0

10 (2%)

0.1399

 Others

0

3 (2%)

0.5534

1 (2%)

4 (2%)

0.8902

1 (1%)

7 (2%)

0.7026

 Time in Spain (months)

46 (13–118)

9 (7–15)

0.003

7 (2–55)

3 (1–7)

0.0000

5 (1–9)

28 (4–96)

0.0000

Initial Healthcare coverage

 No

10 (48%)

14 (8%)

0.0000

59 (88%)

48 (21&)

0.0000

69 (78%)

62 (15%)

0.0000

 Final Healthcare coverage

 No

6 (29%)

8 (4%)

0.0000

17 (25%)

19 (8%)

0.0002

23 (26%)

27 (7%)

0.000

Referred from

 Emergency room

 

40 (22%)

  

31 (14%)

  

71 (17%)

 

 Other hospital ward

 

52 (29%)

  

22 (10%)

  

74 (18%)

 

 Primary Care

 

48 (26%)

  

47 (20%)

  

95 (23%)

 

 STI Clinic

 

16 (9%)

  

9 (4%)

  

25 (6%)

 

 Other hospital in Madrid

 

6 (3%)

  

26 (11%)

  

32 (8%)

 

 Other hospital outside Madrid

 

0

  

26 (11%)

  

26 (6%)

 

 Other/unkown

 

20 (11%)

  

69 (30%)

  

89 (22%)

 

 Time of HIV Infection (years)

   

5 (2–8)

7 (4–12)

0.001

   

Risk group

 MSM

21 (100%)

133 (76%)

0.0123

65 (98.5%)

166 (75%)

0.0000

86 (99%

299 (75%)

0.0000

 Hetero

  

0.0258

 

32 (14%)

0.0040

1 (1%)

66 (17%)

0.0002

 IVDU

 

34 (20%)

0.5442

1 (1.5%)

21 (9%)

0.0096

 

24 (6%)

0.0187

 MSM/IVDU

 

3 (2%)

0.4827

 

2 (1%)

0.4401

 

6 (1.5%)

0.2486

 Other/unknown

 

4 (2%)

0.0123

 

2 (1%)

0.4401

 

2 (0.5%)

0.5071

 Prior AIDS condition

1 (5%)

28 (15%)

0.1878

3 (5%)

28 (12%)

0.0698

4 (5%)

56 (14%)

0.0178

 Basal CD4 count

394 (256–537)

358 (195–555)

0.571

665 (505–842)

624 (402–879)

0.380

   

 Basal Viral load-log

4.5 (4–5)

5 (4–6)

0.080

      

 Detectable viral load for ART interruption at recruitment

   

10 (15%)

54 (24%)

0.0894

   

 Delay on ART initiation (days)

6 (2–21)

14 (7–34)

0.054

      

 AIDS condition at recruitment

1 (33%)

19 (14%)

0.3486

2 (33%)

7 (5%)

0.0029

3 (33%)

26 (9%)

0.0159

 STD basal

9 (43%)

52 (29%)

0.1819

13 (19%)

44 (19%)

0.9725

22 (25%)

96 (23%)

0.7510

 Quantiferon+

3 (15%)

16 (10%)

0.4545

8 (13%)

23 (12%)

0.8897

11 (13%)

39 (11%)

0.5392

 Active TB

1 (5%)

3 (2%)

0.3337

1 (1.5%)

2 (1%)

0.6551

2 (2%)

5 (1%)

0.4433

No HIV related diseases

 Cardiovascular

0

3 (2%)

0.5522

0

7 (3%)

0.1466

0

10 (2%)

0.1384

 Oncological

0

6 (3%)

0.3970

1 (1.5%)

6 (3%)

0.5902

1 (1%)

12 (3%)

0.3378

 Hypertension

1 (5%)

9 (5%)

0.9664

0

17 (8%)

0.0213

1 (1%)

26 (6%)

0.0500

 Diabetes mellitus

0

4 (2%)

0.4914

0

8 (4%)

0.1201

0

12 (3%)

0.1038

 Dyslipidemia

0

4 (2%)

0.4914

6 (9%)

28 (12%)

0.4536

6 (7%

32 (8%)

0.7474

 Nephropathy

0

2 (1%)

0.6283

0

2 (1%)

0.4418

0

4 (1%)

0.3516

 Respiratory disease

0

4 (2%)

0.4902

1 (1.5%)

5 (2%)

0.7210

1 (1%)

9 (2%)

0.5174

 Liver disease

0

5 (3%)

0.4406

0

27 (12%)

0.0031

0

32 (8%))

0.0067

 STD while follow-up

4 (19%)

34 (19%)

0.9763

11 (16%)

39 (17%)

0.8614

15 (17%)

73 (18%)

0.7977

Closure

 1: Active follow-up

16 (76%)

156 (86%)

0.2506

50 (75%)

179 (78%)

0.5834

335 (82%)

66 (75%)

0.1775

 2: Move to other region

1 (5%)

9 (5%)

0.9707

3 (5%)

19 (8%)

0.2981

28 (7%)

4 (5%)

0.4336

 3: Move to other country

1 (5%)

3 (1.5%)

0.3310

0

1 (0.5%)

0.5888

4 (1%)

1 (1%)

0.8874

 4: Return to original country

0

0

 

0

3 (1%)

0.3474

3 (1%)

0

0.4220

 5: Lost of follow-up

2 (9%)

8 (4%)

0.3039

12 (18%)

21 (9%)

0.0442

29 (7%)

14 (16%)

0.0071

 6: Jail

0

1 (0.5%)

0.7335

0

1 (0.5%)

0.5888

2 (0.5%)

0

0.5125

 7: Death

0

2 (1%)

0.6293

0

0

0

2 (0.5%)

0

0.5125

 8. Change of hospital in Madrid

1 (5%)

3 (2%)

0.3310

2 (3%)

6 (3%)

0.8670

9 (2%)

3 (3%)

0.4956