Sex, ethnic group, and geographical distribution of cases of tuberculosis aged 16–54 years at diagnosis and those co-infected with HIV, 1993 and 1998
| London | Rest of England & Wales | All England & Wales | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 1998 | 1993 | 1998 | 1993 | 1998 | ||||||||
| Sex | Ethnic group | All TB | TB/HIV (%)* | All TB | TB/HIV (%)* | All TB | TB/HIV (%)* | All TB | TB/HIV (%)* | All TB | TB/HIV (%)* | All TB | TB/HIV (%)* |
| *Proportion of co-infected patients of all tuberculosis patients within that ethnic group, sex, and geographical location. ISC=Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). | |||||||||||||
| Men | White | 197 | 15 (7.6) | 172 | 21 (12.2) | 363 | 11 (3.0) | 399 | 12 (3.0) | 560 | 26 (4.6) | 571 | 33 (5.8) |
| Black African | 158 | 12 (7.6) | 295 | 26 (8.8) | 31 | 4 (12.9) | 48 | 7 (14.6) | 189 | 16 (8.5) | 343 | 33 (9.6) | |
| ISC | 215 | 1 (0.5) | 240 | 2 (0.8) | 420 | 4 (1.0) | 467 | 1 (0.2) | 635 | 5 (0.8) | 707 | 3 (0.4) | |
| Other/unknown | 87 | 2 (2.3) | 178 | 5 (3.2) | 57 | 0 | 86 | 1 (1.3) | 144 | 2 (1.4) | 264 | 6 (2.3) | |
| Total | 657 | 30 (4.6) | 885 | 54 (6.1) | 871 | 19 (2.2) | 1000 | 21 (2.1) | 1528 | 49 (3.2) | 1885 | 75 (4.0) | |
| Women | White | 92 | 0 | 73 | 3 (4.1) | 241 | 0 | 237 | 1 (0.4) | 333 | 0 | 310 | 4 (1.3) |
| Black African | 124 | 9 (7.3) | 236 | 27 (11.4) | 17 | 3 (17.6) | 42 | 2 (4.8) | 141 | 12 (8.5) | 278 | 29 (10.4) | |
| ISC | 225 | 0 | 260 | 0 | 476 | 0 | 501 | 1 (0.2) | 701 | 0 | 761 | 1 (0.1) | |
| Other/unknown | 70 | 0 | 129 | 2 (1.7) | 60 | 0 | 69 | 1 (1.6) | 130 | 0 | 198 | 3 (1.5) | |
| Total | 511 | 9 (1.8) | 698 | 32 (4.6) | 794 | 3 (0.4) | 849 | 5 (0.6) | 1305 | 12 (0.9) | 1547 | 37 (2.4) | |
| Grand total | 1168 | 39 (3.3) | 1583 | 86 (5.4) | 1665 | 22 (1.3) | 1849 | 26 (1.4) | 2833 | 61 (2.2) | 3432 | 112 (3.3) | |