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Sexual transmission of HIV in Africa Holmes EC, et al.
Nature
422, 679, 17 April 2003
Link Holmes et al. dispute a recent report (International Journal of STD & AIDS) that claimed that sexual transmission is not the dominant route of infection in sub-Saharan Africa. To confirm this, they compared estimates of hepatitis C virus and HIV prevalence in South Africa and found that the prevalence of HCV, a virus that transmits parenterally more easily, has not increased during the 1990s suggesting that dirty needles or contaminated blood products could not be fueling the high HIV prevalence levels. (prevention)
—Posted: April 17, 2003
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