Concurrent partnerships as a driver of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa? The evidence is limited

MN Lurie, S Rosenthal - AIDS and Behavior, 2010 - Springer
… more concurrent partnershipsconcurrency also have high levels of HIV, we can only
conclude that under certain conditions concurrency may be a significant driver of the HIV epidemics

[HTML][HTML] Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth

H Epstein, M Morris - Journal of the international AIDS society, 2011 - Springer
… linking concurrency to HIV epidemic severity in … concurrent partnerships and HIV, and it
contains factual errors concerning the measurement and mathematical modelling of concurrency. …

Concurrent partnerships and the spread of HIV

M Morris, M Kretzschmar - Aids, 1997 - journals.lww.com
… The large impact of concurrent partnerships on both epidemic size and speed of spread
has two important empirical implications. First, these results provide evidence that …

Concurrent sexual partnerships and the HIV epidemics in Africa: evidence to move forward

TL Mah, DT Halperin - AIDS and Behavior, 2010 - Springer
… included: concurrency, concurrent partnerships, and HIV. The … believe are useful in
understanding concurrency in the context of … of HIV prevalence and its relationship to concurrency. …

The influence of concurrent partnerships on the dynamics of HIV/AIDS

CH Watts, RM May - Mathematical biosciences, 1992 - Elsevier
… within the partnership), can result in the spread of HIV having complex dynamic patterns.
In the limit when the average number of concurrent partners is high, the epidemic may have …

Concurrent sexual partnerships do not explain the HIV epidemics in Africa: a systematic review of the evidence

L Sawers, E Stillwaggon - African Journal of Reproduction and …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… than people whose partners have no other partner. Helleringer et al … the concurrency
hypothesis in that way, but in only 23% of concurrent partnerships were both partners tested for HIV

The evidence for the role of concurrent partnerships in Africa's HIV epidemics: a response to Lurie and Rosenthal

TL Mah, DT Halperin - AIDS and Behavior, 2010 - Springer
HIV epidemics are complex and that prevention efforts should not be based on “magic bullet”
solutions, we maintain that addressing concurrency … severe “hyper-epidemics” of southern …

Concurrent sexual partnerships and HIV prevalence in five urban communities of sub-Saharan Africa

, … on Heterogeneity of HIV Epidemics in African Cities - Aids, 2001 - journals.lww.com
… In the last 10 years, concurrency of sexual partnerships has been proposed by several … of
HIV epidemics [3–7] . For the same number of sexual partners, overlapping partnerships would …

Partner concurrency and the STD/HIV epidemic

SO Aral - Current infectious disease reports, 2010 - Springer
… not concurrent partnerships are the drivers of the HIV epidemic … between STI and HIV and
concurrent partnerships at the … that the relationship between concurrency and high-risk human …

[HTML][HTML] Concurrent sexual partnerships and associated factors: a cross-sectional population-based survey in a rural community in Africa with a generalised HIV …

D Maher, L Waswa, A Karabarinde, K Baisley - BMC public health, 2011 - Springer
… on the role of concurrency has … of concurrent sexual partnerships on the spread of HIV
derives from mathematical models, and evidence for the importance of concurrency in driving HIV