PLOS Medicine: The Role of Viral Introductions in Sustaining Community-Based HIV Epidemics in Rural Uganda: Evidence from Spatial Clustering, Phylogenetics, and Egocentric Transmission Models

PLOS Medicine: The Role of Viral Introductions in Sustaining Community-Based HIV Epidemics in Rural Uganda: Evidence from Spatial Clustering, Phylogenetics, and Egocentric Transmission Models

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Outsiders Fuel HIV Transmission within Rural African Communities, NIAID Scientists Find

New NIAID research suggests that in the rural Rakai District of Uganda, sexual partnerships between community members and outsiders frequently bring HIV into the community and thus play an important role spreading the virus there. If this is found to be true in other rural African communities, then HIV prevention efforts there should address not only HIV transmission within communities, but also the introduction of the virus into communities by key external populations.  

Read the study here.