Socioeconomic Status and Vulnerability to HIV Infection in Uganda: Evidence from Multilevel Modelling of AIDS Indicator Survey Data

Table 1

Weighted HIV prevalence by key characteristics, Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey (UAIS), 2004-2005 and 2011.

Characteristic	UAIS, 2004-5				UAIS, 2011
	Women		Men		Women		Men
	% HIV+	Cases	% HIV+	Cases	% HIV+	Cases	% HIV+	Cases
Age Group
15–24	4.3	3842	1.1	3089	4.9	4504	2.1	3450
25–34	10.3	3035	7.0	2248	10.3	3331	6.3	2493
35–44	9.3	1741	9.3	1603	11.5	2247	11.1	2006
45–59	6.6	1448	6.6	1295	8.5	1760	8.1	1574
Wealth/poverty Status	ns		ns		ns		ns
Lowest	6.4	1767	4.3	1360	8.1	2278	6.9	1677
Second	7.4	1948	5.4	1583	9.2	2358	5.1	1933
Middle	7.5	2070	5.2	1688	7.4	2303	6.2	1901
Fourth	7.3	2145	5.7	1692	7.4	2407	6.5	2012
Highest	7.9	2236	5.2	1914	8.9	2495	6.0	2001
Educational Attainment
No education	5.6	2531	7.2	741	8.6	1923	7.5	597
Incomplete primary	7.6	4657	4.8	3862	8.7	5481	6.6	4055
Complete primary	9.9	1100	6.2	1178	9.4	1441	7.0	1390
Incomplete secondary	7.3	1579	4.8	1919	6.7	2334	5.2	2493
Complete sec & higher	8.6	279	4.4	524	5.4	662	4.6	989
Area of Residence					ns
Rural	6.4	8672	4.9	7087	7.6	9407	6.1	7711
Urban	12.6	1493	7.0	1151	10.8	2436	6.3	1813
Current Marital Status
Never been in union	2.8	2084	0.8	2915	2.0	3204	3.9	2604
Married/living together	5.7	6428	6.6	4624	7.4	5710	7.0	7430
Widowed	24.0	803	27.0	141	22.7	75	24.0	692
Divorced/separated	14.0	850	11.1	557	15.0	534	16.4	1117
Sex of Household Head
Male headed household	5.4	6864	5.6	7073	6.1	7264	6.4	7992
Female headed household	11.4	3301	2.9	1165	11.6	4578	4.7	1532
Total	7.3	10165	5.2	8238	8.2	11842	6.1	9524

significant at 5% significance level, chi-square , ns: not significant at 5% level, .