CONCLUSIONS
In this population cohort, followed for 3 years during the implementation of the PopArt intervention, we found several community‐level factors were associated with increased HIV incidence, including less wealth, having sex partners outside the community and having two or more sexual partners. Identification of these factors associated with community‐level HIV incidence can help target high‐incidence communities and help to inform future structural interventions for HIV prevention within those communities. In addition, community PDV was highly predictive of HIV incidence supporting the use of PDV as a useful measure to assess the effectiveness of community‐level interventions to reduce HIV incidence.