Cross-country Association of Press Freedom and LGBT freedom with prevalence of persons living with HIV: implication for global strategy against HIV/AIDS

Table 1 Results from multiple regression using the Press Freedom Index to predict the prevalence rates of persons living with HIV in countries across the globe

Models	Parameter Estimate	Standard Error	95% CI	P value
Association of PFI
Model I (R² = 0.1887)
Intercept	−0.88341	0.2469	−1.3222, − 0.33460	< 0.01
PFI (0-78)	0.3239	0.0561	0.2130, 0.4349	< 0.01
Model II (R² = 0.2068)
Intercept	−0.9017	0.2553	−1.4066, − 0.3968	< 0.01
PFI (0-87)	0.3707	0.0623	0.2475, 0.4939	< 0.01
Per capita GDP ($10 k)	−0.0137	0.0077	−0.0290, 0.0012	> 0.05
Association of LGBT-FI
Model I (R² = 0.006)
Intercept	0.3954	0.3304	−0.2576, 1.0485	> 0.05
LGBT-F	0.0232	0.0952	−0.1649, 0.2113	> 0.05
Model II (R² = 0.012)
Intercept	0.4921	0.3726	−0.2445, 1.2288	> 0.05
LGBT-F	−0.0195	0.1212	−0.2590, 0.2200	> 0.05
Per capita GDP ($10 k)	0.0463	0.0978	−0.1415, 0.2377	< 0.05
Association of PFI and LGBT-FI
(R² = 0.223)
Intercept	−1.5679	0.4673	−2.4920, −0.6438	< 0.01
PFI	0.4024	0.0646	0.2746, 0.5303	< 0.01
LGBT-F	0.1926	0.1135	−0.0318, 0.4170	> 0.05
Per capita GDP ($10 k)	−0.2396	0.0098	−0.0433,-0.0046	< 0.05
Interaction of PFI and LGBT-FI
(R² = 0.270)
Intercept	−7.1081	1.7650	−10.5987, −3.6174	< 0.01
PFI	1.6359	0.3850	0.8745, 2.3972	< 0.01
LGBT-F	1.6007	0.4473	0.7161, 2.4854	< 0.01
PFI * LGBT-F	−0.3136	0.0966	− 0.5046, − 0.1226	< 0.01
Per capita GDP ($10 k)	− 0.0143	0.0099	− 0.0339, 0.0053	> 0.05

Note: Prevalence rates of persons living with HIV by country were transformed by taking a natural logarithm. Population size of individual countries was included as regression weights

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