Characteristics of the population cohort at baseline
Table Characteristics of the population cohort enrolled at baselineIncluded are participants with non‐missing age and sex at baseline.To contribute to HIV incidence, participants must have non‐missing baseline age and sex, and be without HIV at baseline with at least one follow‐up visit with an HIV test result.Hazardous or possible dependence for alcohol is an AUDIT score of 8 or more.HIV incidence was measured for 20,765 participants without HIV enrolled at PC0 with 59,096 PY of follow‐up. There were 878 new acquisitions detected in this cohort (overall incidence 1.49 per 100PY); with 720 acquisitions in females (incidence 1.76 per 100PY) and 158 acquisitions in males (incidence 0.86 per 100PY). The highest HIV incidence among females were aged 18–24 at enrolment (2.22 per 100PY), and among males those aged 25–29 (1.08 per 100PY).Table 