High percentage of recent HIV infection leading to onward transmission in Odessa, Ukraine associated with young adults

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 411-418

  Simmons, Ruth ^a   Semenenko, Igor ^b   Tolpina, Maria ^c   Tereschenko, Rostislav ^d   Kotlik, Ludmila ^c   Zasyptka, Lyubov ^c   Murphy, Gary ^e   McKinney, Elaine ^e   Copas, Andrew ^f   Malyuta, Ruslan ^b   Porter, Kholoud ^a  

^a MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b Perinatal Prevention of AIDS Initiative   (Ukraine)

^c Regional Sanitary Epidemiology Station   (Ukraine)

^d Odessa Regional Centre for HIV/AIDS   (Ukraine)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BED CEIA; HIV incidence; Onward transmission; RITA

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UKRAINE; URBAN POPULATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; UKRAINE; URBAN POPULATION; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893857650     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-013-0518-9     Document Type: Article

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