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The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Predisposition to become HIV positive (HIV + ) is influenced by a wide range of correlated economic, environmental, demographic, social, and behavioral factors. While evidence among a candidate handful have strong evidence, there is lack of a consensus among the vast array of variables m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388647/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00170-z |
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author | Patel, Chirag J. Claypool, Kajal T. Chow, Eric Chung, Ming-Kei Mai, Don Chen, Jessie Bendavid, Eran |
author_facet | Patel, Chirag J. Claypool, Kajal T. Chow, Eric Chung, Ming-Kei Mai, Don Chen, Jessie Bendavid, Eran |
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description | BACKGROUND: Predisposition to become HIV positive (HIV + ) is influenced by a wide range of correlated economic, environmental, demographic, social, and behavioral factors. While evidence among a candidate handful have strong evidence, there is lack of a consensus among the vast array of variables measured in large surveys. METHODS: We performed a comprehensive data-driven search for correlates of HIV positivity in >600,000 participants of the Demographic and Health Survey across 29 sub-Saharan African countries from 2003 to 2017. We associated a total of 7251 and of 6,288 unique variables with HIV positivity in females and males respectively in each of the 50 surveys. We performed a meta-analysis within countries to attain 29 country-specific associations. RESULTS: Here we identify 344 (5.4% out possible) and 373 (5.1%) associations with HIV + in males and females, respectively, with robust statistical support. The associations are consistent in directionality across countries and sexes. The association sizes among individual correlates and their predictive capability were low to modest, but comparable to established factors. Among the identified associations, variables identifying being head of household among females was identified in 17 countries with a mean odds ratio (OR) of 2.5 (OR range: 1.1–3.5, R(2) = 0.01). Other common associations were identified, including marital status, education, age, and ownership of land or livestock. CONCLUSIONS: Our continent-wide search for variables has identified under-recognized variables associated with being HIV + that are consistent across the continent and sex. Many of the association sizes are as high as established risk factors for HIV positivity, including male circumcision. |
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spelling | pubmed-93886472022-08-20 The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa Patel, Chirag J. Claypool, Kajal T. Chow, Eric Chung, Ming-Kei Mai, Don Chen, Jessie Bendavid, Eran Commun Med (Lond) Article BACKGROUND: Predisposition to become HIV positive (HIV + ) is influenced by a wide range of correlated economic, environmental, demographic, social, and behavioral factors. While evidence among a candidate handful have strong evidence, there is lack of a consensus among the vast array of variables measured in large surveys. METHODS: We performed a comprehensive data-driven search for correlates of HIV positivity in >600,000 participants of the Demographic and Health Survey across 29 sub-Saharan African countries from 2003 to 2017. We associated a total of 7251 and of 6,288 unique variables with HIV positivity in females and males respectively in each of the 50 surveys. We performed a meta-analysis within countries to attain 29 country-specific associations. RESULTS: Here we identify 344 (5.4% out possible) and 373 (5.1%) associations with HIV + in males and females, respectively, with robust statistical support. The associations are consistent in directionality across countries and sexes. The association sizes among individual correlates and their predictive capability were low to modest, but comparable to established factors. Among the identified associations, variables identifying being head of household among females was identified in 17 countries with a mean odds ratio (OR) of 2.5 (OR range: 1.1–3.5, R(2) = 0.01). Other common associations were identified, including marital status, education, age, and ownership of land or livestock. CONCLUSIONS: Our continent-wide search for variables has identified under-recognized variables associated with being HIV + that are consistent across the continent and sex. Many of the association sizes are as high as established risk factors for HIV positivity, including male circumcision. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9388647/ /pubmed/35992892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00170-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as 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 images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Patel, Chirag J. Claypool, Kajal T. Chow, Eric Chung, Ming-Kei Mai, Don Chen, Jessie Bendavid, Eran The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa |
title | The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa |
title_full | The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa |
title_fullStr | The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa |
title_short | The demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and HIV infection status across sub-Saharan Africa |
title_sort | demographic and socioeconomic correlates of behavior and hiv infection status across sub-saharan africa |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388647/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00170-z |
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