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Association between genital schistosomiasis and HIV in rural Zimbabwean women

DOI

375

Citations

42

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2006

Year

Eyrun Floerecke Kjetland, Patricia D. Ndhlovu, Exnevia Gomo, Takafira Mduluza, Nicholas Midzi, Lovemore Gwanzura, Peter R. Mason, Leiv Sandvik, Henrik Friis, Svein Gunnar Gundersen
AIDS

Abstract

Women with genital schistosomiasis had an almost three-fold risk of having HIV in this rural Zimbabwean community. Prospective studies are needed to confirm the association.

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