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- Screening for genital and anorectal sexually transmitted infections in HIV prevention trials in AfriPublished on: 17 October 2008
- Published on: 23 April 2008
- Published on: 17 October 2008Screening for genital and anorectal sexually transmitted infections in HIV prevention trials in AfriShow More
Dear Dr. Potterat and colleagues,
Thank you for responding to our manuscript. We have carefully reviewed your comments. Below, please find our responses to the questions raised.
The first comment raised concerns the fact that “sexual factors may have played a lesser role in observed HIV and syphilis prevalence’s than nonsexual factors.” The sexual transmission of sexually transmitted infections including HI...
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None declared. - Published on: 23 April 2008Assessing anal intercourse and blood exposures as routes of HIV transmission in Mombasa, KenyaShow More
Dear Editor,
The report by Grijsen and colleagues documenting the high frequency of unprotected receptive anal intercourse (RAI) in young Kenyans at high risk for HIV infection (1) is a welcome contribution to the small but growing number of studies investigating RAI as a specific risk for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (2-7). Their study, however, presents us with yet another anomaly unlikely to be resolved by the assessme...
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