ArticleWellcome open research2025
Alcohol Consumption and Health Outcomes Among Men in a Rural HIV-Endemic Cohort in South Africa.
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- Alcohol Consumption and Health Outcomes Among Men in a Rural HIV-Endemic Cohort in South Africa.Wellcome open research · 2025Article
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Background: In South Africa, men experience lower HIV care engagement and retention than women. Men who consume alcohol face greater barriers to care and may represent a population with significant unmet health needs. We investigated associations between alcohol consumption, HIV clinical outcomes, and all-cause mortality among men in rural South Africa. Methods: We analyzed data from men in a population-based health screening in KwaZulu-Natal linked to longitudinal clinical and mortality data. Our primary exposure was hazardous alcohol use, defined as an AUDIT-C score ≥4. Our primary outcomes were: living with HIV, awareness of HIV positive status, virologic suppression (<40 copies/mL), advanced HIV disease (CD4 count<200 cells/mm Results: Among 5,771 men (median age 36.2 years, SD 18.9), 10% met criteria for hazardous alcohol use with 28% reporting any alcohol use in the past 12 months. Hazardous alcohol use was not associated with HIV prevalence (aPR 0.96 95%CI 0.83-1.12, p=0.63), awareness of HIV diagnosis (aPR 1.25, 95%CI 0.88-1.77, p=0.22), virologic suppression (aPR 0.92, 95%CI 0.82-1.03, p=0.14), or advanced HIV disease (aPR 0.71, 95%CI 0.40-1.26, p=0.24). Clinic retention was low overall (56% hazardous alcohol vs. 63% no/low-risk alcohol, p=0.092) and similar between groups in adjusted models. Over a median 3.4 years, 7.3% of men with HIV died, with no differences by hazardous alcohol use. Results were similar when considering any alcohol use as the exposure. Conclusions: Hazardous alcohol use among rural South Africa men was not associated with HIV prevalence, HIV clinical outcomes, retention in care, or short-term mortality.
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