Background A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through
1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency …

Zimbabwe is going through a generalised acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
epidemic. The first five years of the epidemic (1985-1990) were characterised by lack of …

Background: Tanzanian antenatal clinic surveillance data suggest stabilizing HIV levels.
Data from an open cohort in northern Tanzania provide robust estimates of prevalence and …

Background Previous surveillance among antenatal clinic (ANC) attendees within the
remote rural Manyara and Singida regions in Tanzania identified an imminent but still …

Background S outhern A frican countries have borne the brunt of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Monitoring epidemiological dynamics is critical to identify the populations at greatest risk of …

In a cross‐sectional study in 1998 we assessed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and
syphilis infections and their risk factors among the 316 registered female sex workers …

A cross-sectional study of 854 outpatients seen at three hospitals in the Eastern Region of
Ghana, West Africa assessed HIV-1 and HIV-2 seroprevalence rates and associated risk …

Background Variability in stages of the HIV-1 epidemic and hence HIV-1 prevalence exists
in different areas in sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study was to investigate the …

Zimbabwe, like many of her neighbours, is going through an HIV epidemic since 1985. It is
imperative to assess progress with epidemic over the past three decades. We conducted a …

Background Health care workers are key players in the prevention and management of HIV-
infection. We surveyed HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and practices of health care …