Infectious Disease
Scientists explore role of STDs, malaria, and TB in Africa AIDS epidemic
Published in AIDS Weekly, July 22nd, 2002
The effect of HIV-1 on other infectious diseases in Africa is an increasing public health concern. In a review in the June 22, 2002 issue of the Lancet, Elizabeth Corbett from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K., and the Harare Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Zimbabwe, and colleagues describe the role that three major infectious diseases - malaria, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis - have had in the HIV-1 epidemic.
The high prevalence of untreated STD infections has been a major factor facilitating the spread of HIV-1 in Africa; with the synergistic interaction between HIV-1 transmission and genital herpes...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-07-22)
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