Background HIV remains a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in K enya.
The effects of behaviors that accompany unhealthy alcohol consumption are a pervasive risk …

Introduction: A decreased frequency of unprotected sex during episodes of concurrent
relationships may dramatically reduce the role of concurrency in accelerating the spread of …

Background: Multiple sexual partnership is having two or more sexual partners that
overlapped in time; individuals who have concurrent sexual partners increase their risk of …

Background Although male circumcision reduces the heterosexual HIV transmission risk, its
effect may be attenuated if circumcised men increase sexual risk behaviours (SRB) due to …

Global AIDS policy still treats HIV as an exceptional case, abstracting from the context in
which infection occurs. Policy is based on a simplistic theory of HIV causation, and …

Background: Increased eligibility guidelines of antiretroviral therapy (ART) may lead to
greater routine viral load monitoring. However, in resource-constrained settings, the …

We study the relationship between education and HIV status using nationally representative
data from 39 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, we …

Background Information regarding the risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
infection among C hinese donors is important for understanding the trend of HIV …

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abuse, legal systems, and sometimes the societal tolerance of sexual violence. 1 However …