Association between alcohol use and HIV status: findings from Zambia and Zimbabwe

OBJECTIVE: To conduct statistical analysis to assess the association between alcohol use and HIV status using Demographic Health Survey data from Zambia (2013–2014) and Zimbabwe (2015–2016). RESULTS: The study showed an association between alcohol use and HIV status using nationally representative p...

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Autores principales: Musuka, Godfrey, Mutenherwa, Farirai, Mukandavire, Zindoga, Chingombe, Innocent, Mapingure, Munyaradzi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30053880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3646-5
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description OBJECTIVE: To conduct statistical analysis to assess the association between alcohol use and HIV status using Demographic Health Survey data from Zambia (2013–2014) and Zimbabwe (2015–2016). RESULTS: The study showed an association between alcohol use and HIV status using nationally representative population-based surveys. The surveys were conducted among men (15–54 years) and women (15–49 years) in 2013–2014 and 2015–2016 in Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. HIV prevalence in the two countries was higher among males and females who drank alcohol compared to those who did not. This study reinforces the existing knowledge base on the association between alcohol use and HIV sero-status and calls for further research to explore the causal pathways between alcohol consumption and HIV status.
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spelling pubmed-60629592018-07-31 Association between alcohol use and HIV status: findings from Zambia and Zimbabwe Musuka, Godfrey Mutenherwa, Farirai Mukandavire, Zindoga Chingombe, Innocent Mapingure, Munyaradzi BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: To conduct statistical analysis to assess the association between alcohol use and HIV status using Demographic Health Survey data from Zambia (2013–2014) and Zimbabwe (2015–2016). RESULTS: The study showed an association between alcohol use and HIV status using nationally representative population-based surveys. The surveys were conducted among men (15–54 years) and women (15–49 years) in 2013–2014 and 2015–2016 in Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. HIV prevalence in the two countries was higher among males and females who drank alcohol compared to those who did not. This study reinforces the existing knowledge base on the association between alcohol use and HIV sero-status and calls for further research to explore the causal pathways between alcohol consumption and HIV status. BioMed Central 2018-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6062959/ /pubmed/30053880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3646-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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