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Sex Transm Infect 84:i17-i23 doi:10.1136/sti.2008.030452
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Comparison of adult HIV prevalence from national population-based surveys and antenatal clinic surveillance in countries with generalised epidemics: implications for calibrating surveillance data

Table 2 Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance-based estimates of HIV prevalence adjusted using either the median of the survey to antenatal clinic-based prevalence ratios, or the median of the probit-transformed prevalence difference; compared to the “gold standard” population-based survey prevalence
Country Urban Rural
National survey adult HIV prev Adjusted ANC prevalence using median ratio Adjusted ANC prevalence using probit transforms National survey adult HIV prevalence Adjusted ANC prevalence using median ratio Adjusted ANC prevalence using probit transforms
Lesotho 29.1 26.6 28.5 21.9 19.8 21.5
Malawi 18.3 15.2 15.7 11.3 10.4 11.0
Zambia 23.1 21.7 22.9 10.8 10.3 10.9
Zimbabwe 18.9 18.0 18.9 17.6 15.3 16.4
Burundi 9.4 9.7 9.8 2.5 2.0 2.0
Ethiopia 5.6 8.6 8.7 0.7 1.6 1.5
Kenya 10.0 9.1 9.1 5.6 7.0 7.2
Rwanda 7.3 4.9 4.7 2.2 2.2 2.2
Tanzania 10.9 9.2 9.3 5.3 4.5 4.6
Uganda 10.1 7.6 7.6 5.7 3.5 3.5
Benin 1.7 1.6 1.5 0.9 1.0 0.9
Burkina Faso 3.6 3.2 3.1 1.3 1.3 1.3
Cameroon 6.7 6.8 6.8 4.0 5.5 5.7
Central African Republic 8.3 11.0 11.2 4.7 12.5 13.3
Chad 7.0 4.0 3.9 2.3 2.3 2.3
Cote d’Ivoire 5.4 5.5 5.4 4.1 3.7 3.8
Equatorial Guinea 3.3 2.6 2.4 3.1
Ghana 2.3 2.9 2.7 2.0 2.7 2.7
Guinea 2.4 4.1 3.9 1.0 2.6 2.6
Liberia 2.5 4.0 3.8 0.8
Mali 2.2 3.0 2.8 1.5 2.1 2.1
Niger 2.1 2.1 1.9 0.6 1.1 1.0
Senegal 0.7 1.2 1.1 0.7 1.1 1.1
Sierra Leone 2.1 3.5 3.3 1.3
Haiti 2.3 4.2 4.1 2.0 1.9 1.8
Dominican Republic 0.9 1.6 1.5 1.2

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