Epidemic
Research conducted at Harvard University has updated our knowledge about epidemic
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 14th, 2007
Research findings, "Epidemiologic transition interrupted: a reassessment of mortality trends in Thailand, 1980-2000," are discussed in a new report. "In the late 1980s and early 1990s a generalized HIV epidemic affected Thailand which was relatively well controlled by an intensive national campaign by the mid 1990s. The extent to which the epidemic has slowed or possibly reversed the epidemiological transition in Thailand is relatively unknown," scientists in the United States report.
"Under-five mortality rates (U5MR) were determined from various sources and weighted least squares regression conducted to determine U5MR over the years 1980-2000. Direct and indirect...
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