Thirty years since the discovery of HIV, the HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa accounts for
more than two thirds of the world's HIV infections. Southern Africa remains the region most …

The HIV-1 pandemic is a complex mix of diverse epidemics within and between countries
and regions of the world, and is undoubtedly the defining public-health crisis of our time …

In the introductory article to a six-part PLoS Medicine series on Migration & Health, series
guest editors Cathy Zimmerman, Mazeda Hossain, and Ligia Kiss outline a migratory …

Food insecurity, which affects> 1 billion people worldwide, is inextricably linked to the HIV
epidemic. We present a conceptual framework of the multiple pathways through which food …

Recognition that social, economic, political, and environmental factors directly affect HIV risk
and vulnerability has stimulated interest in structural approaches to HIV prevention …

Most HIV prevention literature portrays women as especially vulnerable to HIV infection
because of biological susceptibility and men's sexual power and privilege. Conversely …

One of the greatest challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa is the control of the
concomitant HIV and tuberculosis epidemics. HIV continues to spread relentlessly, and …

In 1601, an artisan in Nördlingen named Hans Schwarz was arrested by the local council
because of a weapons violation. The problem was not that Schwarz had kept or used an …

Background Social context (demographic, socioeconomic, macroeconomic, and
sociopolitical features of the environment) influences the epidemiology and consequences …

To inform the development of multilevel strategies for addressing HIV risk among labor
migrants, 97 articles from the health and social science literatures were systematically …