Evaluating two adjustment methods to extrapolate HIV prevalence from pregnant women to the general female population in sub-Saharan Africa

AIDS

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 399-405

  Fabiani, Massimo ^a   Fylkesnes, Knut ^b   Nattabi, Barbara ^c   Ayella, Emingtone O ^c   Declich, Silvia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c St Mary's Hospital Lacor Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

General population; HIV prevalence; Pregnant women; Sentinel surveillance; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARITY; POPULATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 0037436194     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200302140-00014     Document Type: Article

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