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ReviewAIDS and behavior2010

Concurrent sexual partnerships and the HIV epidemics in Africa: evidence to move forward.

Timothy L Mah, Daniel T Halperin

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Review in AIDS and behavior, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 163 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

163 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Timothy L MahAIDS Prevention Research Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. timothy_mah@harvard.edu
Daniel T Halperin

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of concurrent sexual partnerships is increasingly recognized as important for the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, particularly of heterosexual HIV transmission in Africa. Modeling and empirical evidence suggest that concurrent partnerships-compared to serial partnerships-can increase the size of an HIV epidemic, the speed at which it infects a population, and its persistence within a population. This selective review of the published and unpublished literature on concurrent partnerships examines various definitions and strategies for measuring concurrency, the prevalence of concurrency from both empirical and modeling studies, the biological plausibility of concurrency, and the social and cultural underpinnings of concurrency in southern Africa.

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Sexual PartnersAdolescentAdultAfrica South of the SaharaAge DistributionDisease OutbreaksFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansMalePopulation SurveillancePrevalenceSex DistributionSexual BehaviorYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID18648926

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