
We used program surveillance data for newly-identified HIV cases tested by RTRI for recent HIV infection (acquired &amp;lt;12 months ago) during November 2019-October 2021 in 112 districts carrying out recency testing. We abstracted data on RTRI-HIV recency results and overlaid a map of district wealth quintiles with recency data. Wealth quintiles were derived from aggregated household-level data from the 2018 Malaria Indicator Survey, with the bottom two quintiles being ‘poor’, the middle quintile being ‘moderately wealthy’, and the top two quintiles being ‘wealthy’. We regrouped these into wealth tertiles for this study. We conducted an adjusted (adjusted for age and sex) logistic regression to determine the association between HIV RTRI-recency and geographical location and economic index.