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Measures
Demographic variables. Using standard demographic items, interviewers gathered data on participants’ gender, race/ethnicity, age, marital/partner status, living arrangements, educational attainment, and household income. Sexual orientation was assessed using a five-point Likert-type scale ranging from “completely heterosexual” (1) to “completely homosexual” (5). Only those identifying as completely heterosexual were categorized as heterosexual, with all others categorized [...]

Subjective Information
A 46-year-old African-American man with AIDS presented to the hospital with confusion, lethargy, headache and fever. The patient was doing fine until late that morning, when he took his medications consisting of tablet zidovudine + drug lamivudine + medication abacavir (Trizivir®), atazanavir (Reyataz®) and the newly prescribed thrice-weekly TMP/SMX (800/160 mg) for Pneumocystis carinii [...]