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The epidemiology of AIDS in the Vellore region, Southern India

DOI

27

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0

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1993

Year

T. Jacob John, P G Babu, N K Saraswathi, Harriot Jayakumari, Ramanathan Selvaraj, Amitinder Kaur, Sara A. Chacko, Mary Jacob, Prema Ramachandran, Sriram P. Tripathy
AIDS

Abstract

The AIDS epidemic in this region is in its early ascending phase, with a doubling time of approximately 1 year. Most men with AIDS were infected by heterosexual contact with prostitutes, while some women were prostitutes themselves. Together with the male-to-female ratio of 5:1, these results suggest that the male population at risk has sex with a much smaller population of female prostitutes, constituting the major chain of transmission. HIV infection is occurring in both urban and rural populations.