Table 2.

Adjusted relative risks of HIV care cascade outcomes by level of current alcohol use in 28 rural Kenyan and Ugandan communities undergoing universal HIV testing

	Adjusted Relative Risk*	95% Confidence Interval	p-value
Prior diagnosis of HIV
Non-drinking	Reference
Any alcohol use	0.87	(0.83, 0.92)	<0.001
Low-level	0.95	(0.90, 1.0)	0.06
Medium-level	0.84	(0.78, 0.91)	<0.001
High-level	0.58	(0.52, 0.66)	<0.001
Very high-level	0.68	(0.61, 0.75)	<0.001
On ART if prior diagnosis
Non-drinking	Reference
Any alcohol use	0.93	(0.89, 0.97)	<0.001
Low-level	0.95	(0.90, 1.0)	0.04
Medium-level	0.91	(0.86, 0.98)	0.01
High-level	0.93	(0.85, 1.02)	0.11
Very high-level	0.90	(0.84, 0.97)	0.01
Virally suppressed if on ART
Non-drinking	Reference
Any alcohol use	1.08	(0.98, 1.19)	0.12
Low-level	0.93	(0.83, 1.04)	0.18
Medium-level	1.04	(0.90, 1.20)	0.62
High-level	0.96	(0.80, 1.15)	0.64
Very high-level	0.80	(0.68, 0.94)	0.01
Virally suppressed overall
Non-drinking	Reference
Any alcohol use	0.87	(0.83, 0.94)	<0.001
Low-level	0.83	(0.77, 0.90)	<0.001
Medium-level	0.80	(0.73, 0.87)	<0.001
High-level	0.52	(0.47, 0.57)	<0.001
Very high-level	0.49	(0.45, 0.53)	<0.001

^*Adjusted for confounding and incomplete measures of alcohol use, HIV status and viral loads. The adjustment set included sex, age group, mobility, marital status, education, occupation, wealth index, and community.

Bold p-value indicates statistical significance (p<0.05)