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An Examination Of The Differences In Risk Factors And Their Association With Variations In Hiv Prevalence Between Cameroon, Coted'ivoire, And Senegal, Lea Accalogoun
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An Examination of the Differences in Risk Factors and their Association with Variations in HIV Prevalence between Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, and Senegal
(Under the direction of RICHARD ROTHENBERG, M.D., M.P.H. FACULTY
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Background: Extensive evidence suggests there are large variations in the prevalence of HIV infection among Sub-Saharan African countries. Some studies associated these variations in HIV prevalence to differences in the rate of HIV spread while others attributed the variations to risky sexual behaviors. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in risk factors for HIV infection between Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, and Senegal, to determine …