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Title A three-year follow-up survey of demographic changes in a Ugandan town on the trans-African highway with high HIV-1 seroprevalence
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41157
Date 1997
Author(s) Pickering, H.; Nunn, A.J.
Abstract A 1991 serosurvey in a Ugandan trading town on the trans-African highway reported a 40 per cent HIV-1 prevalence in adults. Three years later in a repeat survey of the 531 adults resident in 1991, 279 (53%) were still present, 196 (37%) had left and 56 (11%) had died. There were 138 new residents and 46 children had become adults, making a total of 463 adults in 1994, 13 per cent less than 1991. Most immigrants (91%) came from the surrounding rural district whereas 38 per cent of emigrants went to an urban area. A significant inverse association between wealth and seropositivity was found for women but not men. Of the original residents 157 were known to be HIV-1 positive in 1991; 31 (20%) had died compared to 10 (4%) of the 232 known to be seronegative, representing an HIV-1 attributable mortality fraction of 60 per cent. - no
Subject(s) Uganda; HIV-1; seroprevalence; mdcn-epdm; mdcn-pblc; scls-demo
Language en_AU
Publisher Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
Type of publication pjournal
Format 32497 bytes; application/pdf
Rights yes
Identifier Suppl.; 41-47; Health Transition Review; 7; 1997; 433
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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