Let it be sexual: how health care transmission of AIDS in Africa was ignored.
作者： David Gisselquist , John J Potterat , Stuart Brody , Francois Vachon
DOI: 10.1258/095646203762869151
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摘要: The consensus among influential AIDS experts that heterosexual transmission accounts for 90% of HIV infections in African adults emerged no later than 1988. We examine evidence available through 1988, including risk measures associating with sexual behaviour, health care, and socioeconomic variables, children, risks prostitutes STD patients. Evidence permits the interpretation care exposures caused more transmission. In general population studies, crude associate half exposures. Early studies did not resolve questions about direction causation (between injections HIV) confound STD). Preconceptions sexuality a desire to maintain public trust may have encouraged discounting evidence. urge renewed, evidence-based, investigations into proportion from non-sexual
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