. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 18.

Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2013 Aug 18;18(10):1174–1179. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12165

Table 2.

Model of HIV: multivariate linear regression analysis of HIV prevalence within sub-Saharan Africa.

HIV prevalence as dependent variable¹	Regression Coefficient	p-value
Schistosoma haematobium prevalence (%)	0.029	0.038
Male Circumcision prevalence by category²	−0.84	<0.001
Age of HIV Epidemic (years)	0.30	<0.001
Geographical regions (west, central, east, south)	0.19	0.012
Children fully immunized for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (%)	−0.0077	0.017

In the model, number of countries was 35 and R-squared was 0.66.

Male circumcision prevalence was categorized as low (<20%), intermediate (20-80%), or high (>80%).