An Assessment of Malaria Parasite Density among HIV/AIDS-Subjects at Different Levels of CD4 T-Cells Prior to Antimalarial Therapy at Chulaimbo Sub-County Hospital, Western Kenya

Table 2

Geometrical means of age, parasite density, temperature, and Hb between gender day 0.

Parameter	Male n-48	Female n-78	p-value
Mean age	30.2	32.1	0.524 NS
Gm parasitaemia	26,424	15,346	0.03 S
Mean Hb	12.4	11.2	0.04 S
Mean temperature in °C	37.7	37.5	0.447 NS

Gm: geometrical mean; Hb: haemoglobin; NS: not significant; n: number of participants.