"Hepatitis B Virus Markers as Surrogates for High Risk Sexual Behavior Assessment in HIV Infection in the Tropics."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 11th International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, "Objective: To determine whether Hepatitis B virus markers can be used as surrogates in place of self assessment of high risk sexual behaviors in HIV epidemiology in a tropical country like Ghana. Methods: Twenty HIV positive and 15 HIV negative samples were randomly selected from an ongoing studies on dual infections. Hepatitis B markers namely HBs Ag, HBs Ab, HBc Ab were determined using beads coated with anti HBs, HBs Ag and HBc Ag respectively in the sandwich enzyme immunoassay procedure. All the tests were performed...

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