The more unequal the society, the higher the prevalence level.
Population size and the prevalence level do not seem to as highly correlated with HV death rates.
Likewise, higher poverty levels are likely to be associated with a higher prevalence level, as the poor have lower access to medical care and are generally more vulnerable to disease.
Finally from the analysis, it may be speculated that the most effective way to reduce the infection rate and prevalence level is to educate the people about the HIV and make them aware of the consequences of practicing non-safe sex or any other kind of risky behavior.
This prevalence level corresponds to 5.5% prevalence upon hospital admission.
However the reported HIV prevalence level in Rakai in 2002 was nearly two times Uganda's national HIV prevalence in the 2004/2005 AIS.
However, since many alternative patterns of risk can lead to the same endemic prevalence level, it not possible to accurately judge the impact of the intervention using only that information.
As a baseline for the medium prevalence setting, we assumed a steady-state prevalence of 5% over the time frame, although without interventions the prevalence would continue to rise to the high prevalence level.
In Guinea-Bissau, a few cases were reported during the 1980's, and steady-state prevalence level of four to seven percent was reached by the end of the 1990's [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22].
However, at this prevalence level the confounder would still have to be both quite imbalanced and increase the mortality risk several fold in order to account for the observed OR, even after taking publication bias into account.
