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Age differences between sexual partners, behavioural and demographic correlates, and HIV infection on Likoma Island, Malawi

Beauclair, Roxanne; Helleringe, Stephane; Hens, Niel; Delva, Wim (Springer Nature, 2016)

Patterns of age differences between sexual partners – age-mixing – may partially explain the magnitude of HIV epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidence of age-disparity as a risk factor for HIV remains mixed. We ...

The role of age-mixing patterns in HIV transmission dynamics : Novel hypotheses from a field study in Cape Town, South Africa

Beauclair, Roxanne; Hens, Niel; Delva, Wim (Elsevier, 2018)

Background: Age-disparate relationships are thought to put young women at increased risk of HIV, though current evidence is inconclusive. Studying population-level age-mixing patterns as well as individual-level measures ...