Estimating the net effect of HIV on child mortality in African populations affected by generalized HIV epidemics
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A mathematic procedure was developed and net HIV mortality patterns for each study population was obtained to estimate the mortality of infected children from indirect data sources. The net age-specific HIV mortality pattern for infected can be described by a double Weibull curve fitted to empiric data and the fitted curve that one would expect if HIV were the only cause of death shows to be 67% net survival at 1 year and 39% at 5 years.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2005
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Looking for change in response to the AIDS epidemic: trends in AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior in Zambia, 1990 through 1998
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Educational campaigns about HIV can change people's behavior, according to a study in Zambia. As of 1996, fewer men and women had extramarital sex and fewer unmarried men and women had sexual experience. However, no further changes occurred between 1996 and 1998 and many men still did not use condoms with non-regular partners.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2000
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HIV incidence and HIV-associated mortality in a cohort of factory workers and their spouses in Tanzania, 1991 through 1996
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In a study of factory workers in Tanzania, 10.5% of the women and 15.3% of the men were HIV-positive. Sixty-five percent of the male deaths and 60% of the female deaths were caused by HIV infection.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2000
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