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Article: Will HIV become a major determinant of fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Article from:
- Journal of Development Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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INTRODUCTION
Over the past five years, as the scale of the epidemic and the severe and widespread nature of its consequences have become increasingly apparent, significant amounts of energy and resources have been devoted towards controlling the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Whilst knowledge, attitude, beliefs and practices (KABP) surveys have established that public awareness of the transmission routes of the virus is now quite high, there is as yet little convincing evidence that the behavioural changes needed to forestall a continued escalation of the epidemic have been widely adopted amongst the general population [Hogsborg and Aaby, 1992: 29-31].(1)
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