HIV prevalence in urban and rural areas
| Number tested | % Positive | Urban:rural ratio | 95% CI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | Lower | Upper | ||
| For all surveys data are for 15–49, except Mali (male age range 15–59) and Burundi (age range 12+), South Africa RHRU (15–24), South Africa HSRC (age range 2+), and Zimbabwe (15–29). | |||||||
| *Burundi and South Africa present additional categories besides urban and rural. For Burundi results for semi-urban areas were not included; inclusion of semi-urban areas with urban areas results in a slightly higher U:R ratio of 4.0. For South Africa, formal and informal areas were combined. | |||||||
| Calculated number HIV positives for Equatorial Guinea of 46 does not match the number in report of 52. | |||||||
| Median was calculated for all surveys in the table, except Congo and South Africa RHRU; weighted median was based on the countries population. | |||||||
| NA, not available; IQR, interquartile range. | |||||||
| Burkina Faso | 1708 | 5443 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 2.77 | 1.83 | 3.70 |
| Burundi* | 1053 | 3454 | 9.4 | 2.5 | 3.73 | 2.69 | 4.78 |
| Cameroon | 5615 | 4285 | 6.7 | 4.0 | 1.68 | 1.38 | 1.97 |
| Congo | 3453 | NA | 4.2 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Equatorial Guinea | 791 | 658 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 1.06 | 0.46 | 1.67 |
| Ghana | 4292 | 4852 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.15 | 0.83 | 1.47 |
| Guinea | 2050 | 4328 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 2.40 | 1.43 | 3.37 |
| Kenya | 1495 | 4507 | 10.0 | 5.6 | 1.79 | 1.44 | 2.13 |
| Lesotho | 1142 | 3901 | 29.1 | 21.9 | 1.33 | 1.18 | 1.47 |
| Mali | 2082 | 4764 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.47 | 0.93 | 2.01 |
| Niger | 2019 | 4037 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 3.23 | 1.66 | 4.80 |
| SA RHRU* | 6298 | 5606 | 10.6 | 9.4 | 1.13 | 1.00 | 1.25 |
| SA HSRC* | 10467 | 5370 | 10.6 | 11.1 | 0.95 | 0.86 | 1.04 |
| Rwanda | 2286 | 7734 | 7.3 | 2.2 | 3.32 | 2.63 | 4.01 |
| Senegal | 3416 | 4108 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.00 | 0.46 | 1.54 |
| Sierra Leone | 2625 | 5683 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 1.62 | 1.06 | 2.17 |
| Tanzania | 3276 | 7471 | 10.9 | 5.3 | 2.06 | 1.77 | 2.34 |
| Uganda | 2864 | 13850 | 10.7 | 6.5 | 1.65 | 1.44 | 1.85 |
| Zambia | 1484 | 2323 | 23.1 | 10.8 | 2.14 | 1.82 | 2.46 |
| Zimbabwe | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1.21 | NA | NA |
| Median | IQR | IQR | |||||
| 1.66 | 1.14 | 2.27 | |||||
| Weighted | 1.65 | 1.15 | 2.06 | ||||