Table 2.
HIV prevalence (percentage) among youth (15-24 years) by their background characteristics, Uganda, 2011.
| Background characteristics | Men | Women | Both sexes | Exp. β for HIV+ (95%CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIV + | N. | HIV + | N. | HIV + | N. | ||
| Sex | |||||||
| Men° | 1.0 | ||||||
| Women | 1.762 (1.308-2.307)*** | ||||||
| Age group in 5 years | |||||||
| 15-19° | 1.7 | 2055 | 3.0 | 2393 | 2.4 | 4448 | 1.0 |
| 20-24 | 2.8 | 1395 | 7.1 | 2111 | 5.4 | 3506 | 1.753 (1.290-2.383)*** |
| Place of residence | |||||||
| Urban° | 1.7 | 724 | 5.9 | 1082 | 4.2 | 1806 | 1.0 |
| Rural | 2.3 | 2726 | 4.6 | 3422 | 3.5 | 6148 | 0.77 (0.499-1.193) |
| Marital status | |||||||
| Never in union° | 1.7 | 2849 | 2.8 | 2332 | 2.2 | 5180 | 1.0 |
| Married and living with partner | 3.6 | 523 | 6.2 | 1875 | 5.6 | 2399 | 1.591 (1.135-2.230)*** |
| Widowed/divorced/no longer living together/separated | 7.6 | 78 | 13.1 | 297 | 12.0 | 375 | 3.234 (2.091-5.001)*** |
| Level of education | |||||||
| No education° | 0.0 | 58 | 3.1 | 164 | 2.3 | 222 | 1.0 |
| Primary | 2.3 | 1944 | 5.5 | 2658 | 4.2 | 4602 | 1.950 (0.828-4.594) |
| Secondary | 2.0 | 1279 | 4.3 | 1481 | 3.2 | 2760 | 1.380 (0.565-3.373) |
| Higher | 1.2 | 169 | 2.5 | 201 | 1.9 | 370 | 0.763 (0.245-2.375) |
| Wealth index | |||||||
| Poorest° | 1.1 | 538 | 4.5 | 669 | 3.0 | 1207 | 1.0 |
| Poorer | 1.3 | 600 | 4.5 | 797 | 3.2 | 1397 | 0.902 (0.573-1.421) |
| Middle | 3.6 | 667 | 2.8 | 789 | 3.2 | 1455 | 1.051 (0.657-1.680) |
| Richer | 2.6 | 727 | 5.7 | 940 | 4.4 | 1666 | 1.439 (0.909-2.279) |
| Richest | 1.7 | 919 | 6.0 | 1310 | 4.2 | 2229 | 1.365 (0.790-2.359) |
| Religion Catholic° | 2.5 | 1375 | 5.4 | 1734 | 4.1 | 3109 | 1.0 |
| Anglican/Protestant | 2.5 | 1196 | 4.4 | 1552 | 3.6 | 2748 | 0.931 (0.693-1,251) |
| SDA | 8.3 | 60 | 2.4 | 82 | 4.9 | 142 | 0.928 (0.364-2.371) |
| Pentecostal | 1.0 | 202 | 4.8 | 373 | 3.5 | 575 | 1.098 (0.677-1.779) |
| Other Christian | 0.0 | 112 | 5.5 | 110 | 2.7 | 222 | 0.679 (0.289-1.591) |
| Moslem | 0.4 | 485 | 4.5 | 617 | 2.7 | 1102 | 0.735 (0.478-1.129) |
| Other | 1.5 | 22 | 4.9 | 37 | 3.2 | 57 | 0.925 (0.217-3.933) |
| Ethnecity | |||||||
| Baganda° | 2.3 | 599 | 6.0 | 810 | 4.5 | 1409 | 1.0 |
| Banyankore | 2.9 | 345 | 6.7 | 477 | 5.1 | 822 | 1.497 (0.848-2.645) |
| Iteso | 0.8 | 236 | 2.5 | 317 | 1.8 | 553 | 0.334 (0.119-0.939)** |
| Lugbara/Madi | 1.3 | 152 | 1.4 | 207 | 1.4 | 359 | 0.751 (0.278-2.013) |
| Basoga | 1.5 | 339 | 3.9 | 406 | 2.8 | 745 | 0.952 (0.483-1.875) |
| Langi | 2.6 | 228 | 8.4 | 275 | 5.8 | 503 | 0.630 (0.195-2.030) |
| Bakiga | 2.9 | 170 | 4.6 | 260 | 4.0 | 430 | 1.040 (0.506-2.136) |
| Karimojong | 0.0 | 26 | 3.4 | 58 | 2.4 | 84 | 0.397 (0.072-2.190) |
| Acholi | 1.4 | 138 | 3.5 | 198 | 2.7 | 336 | 0.626 (0.193-2.030) |
| Bagisu/Sabiny | 1.1 | 275 | 4.4 | 272 | 2.7 | 547 | 1.425 (0.664-3.058) |
| Alur/Jopadhola | 4.8 | 147 | 4.1 | 241 | 4.4 | 388 | 1.469 (0.722-2.990) |
| Banyoro | 1.0 | 206 | 4.1 | 193 | 2.5 | 399 | 0.965 (0.472-1.971) |
| Batoro | 2.7 | 147 | 9.8 | 163 | 6.5 | 310 | 1.889 (0.944-3.780)* |
| Other | 1.3 | 3451 | 3.7 | 2381 | 2.4 | 1070 | 0.921 (0.561-1.514) |
| Region Central 1° | 4.0 | 351 | 8.0 | 486 | 6.3 | 837 | 1.0 |
| Central 2 | 3.1 | 325 | 5.2 | 443 | 4.3 | 768 | 0.776 (0.467-1.291) |
| Kampala | 0.3 | 307 | 5.7 | 422 | 3.4 | 729 | 0.555 (0.316-0.976)** |
| East Central | 1.5 | 396 | 3.7 | 457 | 2.7 | 852 | 0.580 (0.287-1.171 |
| Mid Eastern | 1.4 | 424 | 1.8 | 454 | 1.6 | 878 | 0.316 (0.145-0.690)*** |
| North East | 1.3 | 228 | 3.7 | 326 | 2.7 | 554 | 1.102 (0.427-2.845) |
| West Nile | 2.0 | 199 | 2.2 | 268 | 2.1 | 467 | 0.406 (0.167-0.985)** |
| Mid Northern | 2.3 | 350 | 6.8 | 453 | 4.9 | 803 | 1.611 (0.510-5.091) |
| South Western | 2.9 | 384 | 4.6 | 548 | 3.9 | 933 | 0.622 (0.332-1.167) |
| Mid Western | 2.1 | 486 | 5.4 | 646 | 4.0 | 1132 | 0.580 (0.328-1.026)* |
| Total | 2.1 | 3450 | 4.9 | 4504 | 3.7 | 7954 | |
*P<0.05
**P<0.01
***P<0.001
°reference category of different characteristics.