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Heterosexual anal intercourse among community and clinical settings in Cape Town, South Africa
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- Published on: 22 October 2009
- Published on: 22 October 2009Anal sex need not be highly prevalent to affect HIV incidence among heterosexual populationsShow More
The results published by Kalichman et. al. on anal intercourse (AI) practices among heterosexuals in South Africa [1] and the associated editorial by Boily et. al. [2] are important contributions to our understanding of HIV transmission. While a small proportion of men (14%) and women (10%) report engaging in heterosexual AI [1], this mode of exposure could be important to overall HIV transmission rates because the ris...
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