The strength of the evidence linking concurrency to HIV epidemic severity in southern and
eastern Africa led the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the Southern …

Recently a growing number of HIV prevention programs have begun addressing multiple
and concurrent partnerships, inspired by the increasing recognition of the association …

The role of concurrent sexual partnerships is increasingly recognized as important for the
transmission of sexually transmitted infections, particularly of heterosexual HIV transmission …

Sub-Saharan Africa contains only 3% of the global population but an alarming 68% of the
world's adults and children living with HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS 2007). Sixtyeight percent of adults …

More than 10 years ago the concept of 'concurrency'entered the epidemiological stage in the
attempt to explain the differences of spread of HIV in different populations [1–4]. In recent …

Multiple sexual partnerships must necessarily lie at the root of a sexually transmitted
epidemic. However, that overlapping or concurrent partnerships have played a pivotal role …

Background Although concurrent sexual partnerships may play an important role in HIV
transmission in Africa, the lack of an agreed definition of concurrency and of standard …

In the past few years, the relative contribution of concurrent sexual partnerships where
partnerships overlap over time (ie, concurrency) to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa …

We would like to thank the authors for their comments on our article that questioned the
amount and quality of the evidence to support the hypothesis that concurrent partnerships …

Recently, there has been debate about the role of concurrent partnerships in driving the
transmission of HIV, particularly in Southern Africa, where HIV prevalence is up to 25% in …