Public health. Reducing HIV transmission in developing countries
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2001Author
Jha P.
Nagelkerke JD.
Ngugi, Elizabeth N
Prasada Rao JV
Willbond B.
Moses S.
Plummer FA.
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The global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which has already infected more than 50 million people, has been inadequate, particularly in the developing world. In many countries, blood screening was delayed, partly because of the initial misconception that HIV rarely causes AIDS. The importance of heterosexual intercourse and breastfeeding in HIV transmission was downplayed for years. Patchy surveillance has frustrated efforts to predict the course of the epidemic, and cohort studies, essential for good epidemiology, are rare in developing countries. Nevertheless, there have been successes. One of the main, largely unsung, achievements is that interventions have been developed that have the capability to reduce HIV incidence and relevant risky behaviors by up to 80%. Unfortunately, these interventions have in general not been implemented at a wide enough scale to have significant impact
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11305312http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16201
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Science. 2001 Apr 13;292(5515):224-5Publisher
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Departments of Medical Microbiology, Community Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3E 0W3. Department of Public Health, University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, and National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Amsterdam, Netherlands Department of Community Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India National Microbiology Laboratory, Health Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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