HIV/HSV-related characteristics of trial participants with genital ulcer disease (GUD) at enrolment, by country & sex.

aAmong HIV seropositive individuals.bMissing CD4 data for 22/95 HIV positive women in Ghana; 66/108 in CAR: 9/84 women in Malawi,16/173 men in Malawi, 2/387 men in South Africa.cMissing ARV data for 1/95 women in Ghana and 54/387 men in South Africa.dUses threshold of: 250 copies/mL for Ghana & CAR; 400 copies/mL for Malawi; 50 copies/mL for S Africa. Lesional HIV-1 RNA only.eDefined as HSV-2 seronegative and HSV-2 DNA detected in the ulcer. Data are missing for 27 participants (21 with missing ulcer aetiology, 6 with missing HSV-2 serostatus).fAmong 541 HIV-1 seropositive individuals with HSV-2 ulcers and data on lesional HIV-1 RNA.