Sexual risk factors for HIV infection in early and advanced HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic overview of 68 epidemiological studies.

It is commonly assumed that sexual risk factors for heterosexual HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, such as multi-partner sex, paid sex and co-infections, become less important as HIV epidemics mature and prevalence increases.We conducted a systematic review of 68 African epidemiological studie...

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Main Authors: Li Chen, Prabhat Jha, Bridget Stirling, Sema K Sgaier, Tina Daid, Rupert Kaul, Nico Nagelkerke, International Studies of HIV/AIDS (ISHA) Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1994584?pdf=render