Was higher viral load responsible for the African HIV epidemic? : AIDS brief
Index to South African Periodicals
- Date
- 2013-03-01
- Language
- English
- Media Type
- research article
- Pages
- 117
- Keywords
- aids, poverty, HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus, Anti-retroviral therapy, War, Art, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV infection, Spread, HIV viral load, HIV epidemics, Viral loads, Higher viral load, Raised viral load, Community viral load
- Author(s)
- Cairns, G.
- Publication Title
- CME Continuing medical education journal
- Volume
- 31
- ISSN
- 1016-6742
- Description
- Shows that raised viral load cannot be the entire explanation for south and east Africa's dramatically larger HIV epidemics: a combination of factors ranging from it being HIV's home continent to war and poverty contributed to its unique spread into the general population. Reflects on the implications for HIV infection of raised viral load.
- Subject
- DISEASE, THERAPY