Table 3 HIV prevalence in urban and rural areas.
| Number tested | % Positive | Urban:rural ratio | 95% CI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | Lower | Upper | ||
| Burkina Faso | 1708 | 5443 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 2.77 | 1.83 | 3.70 |
| Burundi* | 1053 | 3454 | 9.4 | 2.5 | 3.73 | 2.69 | 4.78 |
| Cameroon | 5615 | 4285 | 6.7 | 4.0 | 1.68 | 1.38 | 1.97 |
| Congo | 3453 | NA | 4.2 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Equatorial Guinea | 791 | 658 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 1.06 | 0.46 | 1.67 |
| Ghana | 4292 | 4852 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.15 | 0.83 | 1.47 |
| Guinea | 2050 | 4328 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 2.40 | 1.43 | 3.37 |
| Kenya | 1495 | 4507 | 10.0 | 5.6 | 1.79 | 1.44 | 2.13 |
| Lesotho | 1142 | 3901 | 29.1 | 21.9 | 1.33 | 1.18 | 1.47 |
| Mali | 2082 | 4764 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.47 | 0.93 | 2.01 |
| Niger | 2019 | 4037 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 3.23 | 1.66 | 4.80 |
| SA RHRU* | 6298 | 5606 | 10.6 | 9.4 | 1.13 | 1.00 | 1.25 |
| SA HSRC* | 10467 | 5370 | 10.6 | 11.1 | 0.95 | 0.86 | 1.04 |
| Rwanda | 2286 | 7734 | 7.3 | 2.2 | 3.32 | 2.63 | 4.01 |
| Senegal | 3416 | 4108 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.00 | 0.46 | 1.54 |
| Sierra Leone | 2625 | 5683 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 1.62 | 1.06 | 2.17 |
| Tanzania | 3276 | 7471 | 10.9 | 5.3 | 2.06 | 1.77 | 2.34 |
| Uganda | 2864 | 13850 | 10.7 | 6.5 | 1.65 | 1.44 | 1.85 |
| Zambia | 1484 | 2323 | 23.1 | 10.8 | 2.14 | 1.82 | 2.46 |
| Zimbabwe | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1.21 | NA | NA |
| Median | IQR | IQR | |||||
| 1.66 | 1.14 | 2.27 | |||||
| Weighted | 1.65 | 1.15 | 2.06 | ||||
For all surveys data are for 15–49, except Mali (male age range 15–59) and Burundi (age range 12+), South Africa RHRU (15–24), South Africa HSRC (age range 2+), and Zimbabwe (15–29).
*Burundi and South Africa present additional categories besides urban and rural. For Burundi results for semi‐urban areas were not included; inclusion of semi‐urban areas with urban areas results in a slightly higher U:R ratio of 4.0. For South Africa, formal and informal areas were combined.
Calculated number HIV positives for Equatorial Guinea of 46 does not match the number in report of 52.
Median was calculated for all surveys in the table, except Congo and South Africa RHRU; weighted median was based on the countries population.
NA, not available; IQR, interquartile range.