AIDS in Africa: a public health priority
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1987Author
Piot, P
Colebunders, R
Laga, M
Ndinya-Achola Jeckoniah O.
van der Groen, G
Plummer, FA
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AIDS and HIV infection are now endemic in many parts of Africa. The infection is mainly transmitted by heterosexual activity, as illustrated by a 1:1 female to male case ratio and high HIV seroprevalence rates in people at risk for sexually transmitted diseases and female prostitutes. Transmission by blood transfusions, contaminated injections and from mother to child is occurring more frequently than in Europe. AIDS will probably have a profound impact on health care programmes and economic development in the continent, and its control should be a public health priority.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/3312264http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17120
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J Virol Methods. 1987 Aug;17(1-2):1-10Publisher
Department of Microbiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]