HIV/AIDS among Palestinians: detection, clinical presentation, prognosis and HIV testing patterns, 1994-2010.

Objectives: To describe the detection, clinical presentation, and prognosis of West Bank and East Jerusalem Palestinians infected with HIV/AIDS, and HIV testing patterns of Palestinians in the Jerusalem area.

Design And Methods: This was a case-control analysis comparing all 33 Palestinian HIV/AIDS patients who were referred to the Hadassah AIDS Center (HAC) over 17 years (1994-2010) with 77 non-Palestinian patients seen over the same period. The systematic sampling method was used to select the control group.