HIV/AIDS Transmission

Unsafe injections unlikely to account for HIV spread in Africa

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 27th, 2006

An epidemiological analysis in a recent issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases casts doubt on a controversial theory that most cases of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are transmitted by medical injections performed with re-used needles, rather than by sexual contact.

Led by Katherine French, PhD, of Imperial College, London, the researchers developed mathematical models simulating the two routes of HIV spread. The models tested various assumptions regarding how many unsafe injections and what rates of HIV transmission would be needed to create an HIV epidemic over a 22-year period.

The results did not support the "iatrogenic" theory of transmission...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-03-27)

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