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Article: Good news, apparently; AIDS statistics in Africa.(Better AIDS statistics)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2004
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Building better models of the prevalence of HIV
APART from Uganda, where HIV infection rates have been falling for several years, there has been little to celebrate about AIDS in Africa. For much of the past decade scientists repeatedly lifted their estimates of the numbers of Africans who were infected with HIV and of how many would die from it. Early hopes that prevalence rates would peak at a quarter of any adult population were dashed by data from Swaziland and Botswana that showed more than one in three adults now carry the virus.
But preliminary results from the quinquennial Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDH) have brought unexpected good ...