The characteristics of the study population¹.

Boldface type indicates statistical significance. 198.5% of the study population were ethnic Mozambicans. 2One patient with a positive malaria PCR test died of other causes than malaria, so his death is categorised as malaria negative. 3The p-values are from Mann-Whitney tests (continuous data) or Chi-squared tests (dichotomous data). 4Comparison of malaria patients with and without HIV co-infection (columns 1 and 2). 5Comparison of HIV patients with and without malaria (columns 1 and 3). 6Severe HIV = HIV WHO stage 3 or 4. 7Please note the small numbers: n = 11 and n = 8. 8ART = antiretroviral therapy = HIV treatment. “Effective” is defined as “Previous known ART and undetectable HIV-RNA in the plasma”. In relation to all HIV-patients with and without malaria.