Effect of concurrent sexual partnerships on rate of new HIV infections in a high-prevalence, rural South African population: A cohort study

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9787, 2011, Pages 247-255

  Tanser, Frank ^a   Bärnighausen, Till ^a,b   Hund, Lauren ^b   Garnett, Geoffrey P ^c   McGrath, Nuala ^a,d   Newell, Marie Louise ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79960368809     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60779-4     Document Type: Article

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