Epidemiology

HIV-2 Infection Present in Guinea-Bissau Since the Early 1980s

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 2nd, 2000

Research from Portugal suggests that HIV-2 infection has been present in West Africa since the early 1980s.

"We have retrospectively studied the seroprevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Guinea-Bissau in a sample of sera collected from the whole country in 1980," wrote J. Piedade and colleagues, Institute of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Portugal. "We tested a total of 1248 individuals and found 11 individuals who were seropositive for HIV-2, but there were no HIV-1 seropositive samples."

Piedade et al. published their findings in the journal Acta Tropica ("Longstanding presence of HIV-2 infection in Guinea-Bissau (West...

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