- How can a virus be so selective? How can the heterosexual epidemic largely be confined to a few southern African countries?
- Why has the virus only led to a “heterosexual epidemic” in southern Africa?
- Who is at risk of being infected? How can the heterosexual epidemic largely be confined to a few southern African countries?
Tag: Epidemiology
South Africa’s contested HIV/Aids epidemiology
What caused South Africa’s death rate to shoot up in the mid-1990s: improved death registration or a new viral cause of death? While there was a seemingly sharp increase in the death rate in South Africa from 1990 to 1999, particularly in the age group 15 to 49, and especially among women, there was strong dissent regarding whether this was due to an increase in the number of deaths registered or due to a sexually transmitted viral epidemic.
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