Table 1.

Baseline demographic and behavioral characteristics by reported alcohol use among adult residents known to be HIV-positive in East Africa (n=10,067)

	Drinkers		Non-drinkers
Characteristic	n	%	n	%
Total	1,626		8,441
Country
Kenya	466	28.7	5,209	61.7
Uganda	1,160	71.3	3,232	38.3
Age, y
15–24	99	6.1	1,181	14.0
25–34	512	31.5	2,868	34.0
35–44	555	34.1	2,372	28.1
>44	460	28.3	2,020	23.9
Sex
Male	1,159	71.3	2,409	28.5
Female	467	28.7	6,032	71.5
Marital status
Single	170	10.5	611	7.2
Married	1,121	68.9	5,714	67.7
Widowed, divorced, separated	331	20.4	2,107	25.0
Missing	4	0.3	9	0.1
Occupation
Formal sector^A	82	5.0	444	5.3
Informal sector^B	1,355	83.3	7,131	84.5
Other	139	8.6	377	4.5
No job/disabled	47	2.9	481	5.7
Missing	3	0.2	8	0.1
Education
Less than primary	1,065	65.5	6,285	74.5
Primary	238	14.6	1,028	12.2
Secondary or more	315	19.4	1,103	13.1
Missing	8	0.5	25	0.3
Household wealth index quintile^C
Lowest quintile	420	25.8	1,634	19.4
2^nd lowest	313	19.3	1,496	17.7
Middle	304	18.7	1,683	19.9
2^nd highest	285	17.5	1,825	21.6
Highest	243	14.9	1,676	19.9
Missing	61	3.8	127	1.5
Mobile^D	277	17.0	826	9.8
Alcohol use level by AUDIT-C^E
None (0)	-	-	8,441	100.0
Low (1–3 men; 1–2 women)	774	47.6
Medium (4–5 men; 3–5 women)	561	34.5
High (6–7)	170	10.5
Very high (8–12)	121	7.4

Abbreviations: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; AUDIT-C, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Concise

Formal sector occupation defined as teacher, student, government worker, military worker, health worker, or factory worker

Informal sector occupation defined as fishmonger, fisherman, bar owner, bar worker, transport, tourism, farmer, shopkeeper, market vendor, hotel worker, homemaker, household worker, construction worker, or mining

Quintiles based on principal components analysis of household wealth survey

Mobile defined as living away from the study community for > 1 month in the past year

AUDIT-C scores range from 0–12 and are categorized as levels by score and gender as shown