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Heavy Alcohol Use Among Women and Men Living With HIV in Uganda, Russia, and the United States.
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Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. 82(4)
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ObjectiveWe examined whether gender is associated with heavy drinking in three cohorts of people living with HIV (PLWH) in Mbarara, Uganda; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Boston, Massachusetts.MethodWe conducted secondary analyses of baseline data collected from three cohorts in the Uganda Russia Boston Alcohol Network for Alcohol Research Collaboration on HIV/AIDS (URBAN ARCH) consortium. We used multiple logistic regression models to evaluate the association between gender and heavy drinking (defined in combination with self-report and phosphatidylethanol [PEth]) within each cohort.ResultsIn unadjusted logistic regression models, we found no significant association between gender and heavy drinking in Russia or Boston. In Uganda, women were less likely than men to engage in heavy drinking (odds ratio = 0.38, 95% CI [0.26, 0.58], p