The Double Burden of HIV Infection and Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 18 September 1997
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (12) , 849-851
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199709183371210
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that by June 1996 14 million people were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Although it contains only 10 percent of the world's population, sub-Saharan Africa is home to about 65 percent of all the world's HIV-infected people. In several urban centers, more than 10 percent of the asymptomatic adults and about 15 to 30 percent of the women attending prenatal-care clinics are infected. A 1994 paper reported that in rural Uganda more than 80 percent of the deaths among men and women 25 to 44 years of age were . . .Keywords
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