ArticleAIDS (London, England)2016
Migration and HIV infection in Malawi.
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- Sexual Risk Behaviors, HIV Prevalence and Access to Reproductive Health Services Among Young Women Migrant Workers in the Industrial Zones in Vietnam.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2021Article
- The impact of the caregiver mobility on child HIV care in the Manhiça District, Southern Mozambique: A clinical based study.PloS one · 2021Article
- Migration in Namibia and its association with HIV acquisition and treatment outcomes.PloS one · 2021Article
- Migration and sexual partnerships among unmarried young men in Thailand: a longitudinal approach.International journal of public health · 2020Article
- Effect of HIV Infection and Antiretroviral Treatment on Pregnancy Rates in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Migration and first-year maternal mortality among HIV-positive postpartum women: A population-based longitudinal study in rural South Africa.PLoS medicine · 2020Article
- Migration, hotspots, and dispersal of HIV infection in Rakai, Uganda.Nature communications · 2020Article
- The Influence of Social Networks on Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Therapy-Naive Youth in Rural Kenya and Uganda.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2020Article
- Internal migration and child health in Malawi.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Article
- Mobility and its Effects on HIV Acquisition and Treatment Engagement: Recent Theoretical and Empirical Advances.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2019Review
- PANGEA-HIV 2: Phylogenetics And Networks for Generalised Epidemics in Africa.Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2019Review
- Complex Patterns Across the Migration Process and Associated HIV Testing and Risk Behaviors among Latino Immigrants.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Article
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objectiveTo evaluate the assumption that moving heightens HIV infection by examining the time-order between migration and HIV infection and investigate differences in HIV infection by migration destination and permanence.
methodsWe employ four waves of longitudinal data (2004-2010) for 4265 men and women from a household-based study in rural Malawi and a follow-up of migrants (2013). Using these data, we examine HIV status prior to migration. Migrants are disaggregated by destination (rural, town, and urban) and duration (return and permanent); all compared with individuals who consistently resided in the rural origin ('nonmigrants').
resultsHIV-positive individuals have significantly greater odds of migration than those who are HIV negative [odds ratio 2.75; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.89-4.01]. Being HIV positive significantly increases the relative risk (RR) that respondent will be a rural-urban migrant [RR ratio (RRR) 6.28; 95% CI 1.77-22.26), rural-town migrant (RRR 3.62; 95% CI 1.24-10.54), and a rural-rural migrant (RRR 4.09; 95% CI 1.68-9.97), instead of a nonmigrant. Being HIV positive significantly increases the RR that a respondent will move and return to the village of origin (RRR 2.58; 95% CI 1.82-3.66) and become a permanent migrant (RRR 3.21; 95% CI 1.77-5.82) instead of not migrating.
conclusionHIV-positive status has a profound impact on mobility: HIV infection leads to significantly higher mobility through all forms of migration captured in our study. These findings emphasize that migration is more than just an independent risk factor for HIV infection: greater prevalence of HIV among migrants is partly due to selection of HIV-positive individuals into migration.
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