“…Alcohol use, was associated with several socio-demographic factors including being male [50,112,114,140,158,168,182,191], being unemployed [114], being self-employed [97], having a lower socio-economic status (SES) [128], being single or separated, living in larger households [97], having a family member struggling with alcohol use, and alcohol being brewed in the home [143]. Alcohol use was linked to various health factors including glucose intolerance [81], poor cardiovascular risk factor control [111], having a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus [134], hypertension [112,139], default from tuberculosis (TB) treatment [148], depression [113], psychological Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) [205], tobacco use [182,205], and increased risk of esophageal cancer [137,179].…”