Prevalence of curable sexually transmitted infections in pregnant women in low-and middle-income countries from 2010 to 2015: a systematic review

DLJ Davey, HI Shull, JD Billings, D Wang… - Sexually transmitted …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Background Current literature comparing the prevalence rates of curable sexually
transmitted infections (STIs) in pregnant women in various global regions is limited. As a …

Does male circumcision reduce women's risk of sexually transmitted infections, cervical cancer, and associated conditions?

BJ Morris, CA Hankins, J Banerjee… - Frontiers in public …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Male circumcision (MC) is proven to substantially reduce men's risk of a
number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We conducted a detailed systematic review …

Association between male circumcision and women's biomedical health outcomes: a systematic review

JM Grund, TS Bryant, I Jackson, K Curran… - The Lancet Global …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Male circumcision reduces men's risk of acquiring HIV and some sexually
transmitted infections from heterosexual exposure, and is essential for HIV prevention in sub …

The global epidemiology of syphilis in the past century–a systematic review based on antenatal syphilis prevalence

CR Kenyon, K Osbak, A Tsoumanis - PLoS Neglected Tropical …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background How can we explain the uneven decline of syphilis around the world following
the introduction of penicillin? In this paper we use antenatal syphilis prevalence (ASP) to …

HIV epidemic in Tanzania: the possible role of the key populations

BCT Mpondo, DW Gunda… - AIDS research and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
HIV remains a public health concern in Tanzania and other Eastern and Southern African
countries. Estimates show that there were about 1.4 million people living with HIV in …

Economic inequality and HIV in Malawi

D Durevall, A Lindskog - World Development, 2012 - Elsevier
To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel
models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We find …

Prevalence, incidence and risk factors for anogenital warts in Sub Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta analysis

C Banura, FM Mirembe, J Orem, AK Mbonye… - Infectious agents and …, 2013 - Springer
Introduction The quadrivalent HPV vaccine is highly effective in primary prevention of
anogenital warts (AGWs). However, there is lack of systematic review in the literature of the …

[HTML][HTML] What underpins the decline in syphilis in Southern and Eastern Africa? An exploratory ecological analysis

CR Kenyon, K Osbak, RM Chico - International Journal of Infectious …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background AIDS mortality played an important role in the decline in syphilis prevalence in
the USA, but its effect on the dramatic reduction in syphilis prevalence in Southern and …

What is the burden of heterosexually acquired HIV due to HSV-2? Global and regional model-based estimates of the proportion and number of HIV infections …

R Silhol, H Coupland, RF Baggaley… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: Biological and epidemiological evidence suggest that herpes simplex virus
type 2 (HSV-2) elevates HIV acquisition and transmission risks. We improved previous …

The rise and fall of HIV in high-prevalence countries: a challenge for mathematical modeling

NJD Nagelkerke, P Arora, P Jha… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Several countries with generalized, high-prevalence HIV epidemics, mostly in sub-Saharan
Africa, have experienced rapid declines in transmission. These HIV epidemics, often with …