Independent association of hygiene, socioeconomic status, and circumcision with reduced risk of HIV infection among Kenyan men

dc.contributor.author	Meier, AS
dc.contributor.author	Bukusi, EA
dc.contributor.author	Cohen, CR
dc.contributor.author	Holmes, KK
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-12T11:37:54Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-12T11:37:54Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/32213
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16885771
dc.description.abstract	Among Kenyan men recruited as sex partners of women with genital symptoms, 22 of 150 were HIV seropositive. Because male HIV infection and male hygiene were unexpectedly found to be associated with each other, we examined the relationship of 5 hygiene variables with HIV infection in the men in a principal components analysis, controlling for socioeconomic status and other potential confounders. By multivariate analyses, HIV infection in men was not only independently associated with previous illness (odds ratio [OR], 5.1; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4-19.1) and inversely associated with being circumcised (OR, 0.12; 95% CI, 0.02-0.91), but also independently associated with a combined measure of hygiene (OR, 0.41; 95% CI, 0.19-0.90	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Washington	en
dc.title	Independent association of hygiene, socioeconomic status, and circumcision with reduced risk of HIV infection among Kenyan men	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Laboratory Medicine	en