Thursday, July 9, 2009

Interventions needed in Cambodia to reduce HIV transmission from wealthier urban men to wives

By Roger Pebody, Wednesday, July 08, 2009 A household survey in Cambodia found an HIV prevalence of 0.6%, and found that infection was more common in urban areas and in wealthier households, researchers report in the July 17th edition of AIDS. A number of the findings support the hypothesis that the majority of infections in men are related to buying sex and that most women are infected by their husbands. Previous monitoring of the HIV epidemic in Cambodia relied on surve Read more ...