CD4 and AIDS: Similarly, in the secondary analyses with CD4 percent as the outcome, the final LME models among participants on ART (Table 2),there was no statistically significant difference in the mean CD4+ T-cell percent over 12 months of participants not using alcohol and participants with hazardous alcohol use (mean CD4 percent difference = -0.27, p = 0.42) and with non-hazardous alcohol use (mean CD4 percent difference = 0.81, p = 0.205), controlling for self- reported ART adherence, WHO HIV/AIDS clinical diseases stage, duration of HIV positivity and sex.