Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom …

In 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, from 5% to 26% of adults aged 15-49 are HIV-positive. Because HIV transmits … identify the risks that led to their infections and so explain how HIV transmits so extensively in Africa. But that has not … happened. Much of the research into adults’ risks for HIV in Africa has been conducted through randomized controlled trials …

control a geographically-dispersed and heterogeneous group of actors involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Ghana, Africa … NGO and community-based organizations which, in turn, provide HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment activities throughout the …. It considers how the World Bank and the Ghana AIDS Commission are using accounting to assemble and coordinate over 3000 …

The Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) encourages governments to use the Modes of Transmission (MOT) model … to estimate numbers of infections from various risks and thereby to guide HIV prevention efforts. A simple design error … trajectory. For Swaziland, using data on sero-discordance in couples cuts annual spouse-to-spouse HIV transmission from 9,166 to …

behaviors sooner, resulting in lower morbidity and mortality among the highly educated. This may be the case for HIV in sub …-Saharan Africa: Recent empirical work shows that incidence is falling and the reduction is concentrated in more educated populations …. However, it is unclear whether the educated have indeed adopted HIV risk-reducing behaviors to a greater extent than the less …

In South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, young people, especially women, are at high risk due to an apparent gap between … and feared pregnancy as well as HIV/AIDS. Both sexes deemed it difficult for girls to initiate condom use, although both …

submit designs for a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic. The pandemic is changing the demographic structure of Africa and wiping …Three-quarters of the world's AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs … around 45 years or even less. In this paper, we highlight the uniqueness of factors associated with HIV/AIDS pandemic in …

Although there is a widespread belief that scaling up HIV voluntary testing and counseling (VCT) programs in Africa … among those at highest risk is uncertain. The paper also assesses two other common perceptions about VCT in Africa: that a …