Risk factors for male to female transmission of HIV

dc.contributor.author	Lock, Stephen	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-13T17:47:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-01-13T17:47:17Z
dc.date.issued	2015-01-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11400/3945
dc.rights	Αναφορά Δημιουργού-Μη Εμπορική Χρήση-Όχι Παράγωγα Έργα 3.0 Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες	*
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dc.subject	Infectious diseases
dc.subject	Κολλητικές ασθένειες
dc.subject	Σύνδρομο επίκτητης ανοσολογικής ανεπάρκειας
dc.subject	Σεξουαλικές επαφές
dc.subject	Σεξουαλικοί σύντροφοι
dc.subject	Παράγοντες κινδύνου
dc.subject	AIDS
dc.subject	Sexual contacts
dc.subject	Sexual partners
dc.subject	Risk factors
dc.title	Risk factors for male to female transmission of HIV	en
heal.type	journalArticle
heal.classification	Medicine
heal.classification	Sexual health
heal.classification	Ιατρική
heal.classification	Σεξουαλική υγεία
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heal.classificationURI	N/A-Σεξουαλική υγεία
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heal.contributorName	Lock, Stephen (ed.)	en
heal.identifier.secondary	Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.298.6671.411
heal.language	en
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heal.recordProvider	Τεχνολογικό Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα Αθήνας.Σχολή Επαγγελμάτων Υγείας και Πρόνοιας.Τμήμα Δημόσιας Υγείας και Κοινοτικής Υγείας.Κατεύθυνση Δημόσιας Υγείας (Δημόσιας Yγιεινής).	el
heal.publicationDate	1989-02
heal.bibliographicCitation	Lord, S. (ed.) (1989). Risk factors for male to female transmission of HIV."British Medical Journal".Vol.(6671) 298: pp.411-415.	en
heal.abstract	OBJECTIVE--To identify risk factors for sexual transmission of HIV from infected men to their female sexual partners. DESIGN--Cross sectional analysis as part of a continuing study. Data were obtained by interviewing heterosexual couples in which the man was infected with HIV. Risks were assessed by comparing couples in which transmission had occurred (woman infected with HIV) with those in which it had not (woman not infected) and estimated by independent odds ratios and their 95% confidence intervals. SETTING--Infectious disease and public health departments from nine centres in six European countries. PARTICIPANTS--153 Male index patients (mean age 30.4 years) and their 155 female partners (mean age 27.8 years). INTERVENTIONS--Women were tested to determine their HIV antibody state. Women with a risk of infection with HIV other than sexual contact with their infected partner were excluded. END POINT--Three risk factors for male to female transmission of HIV. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Three risk factors were identified: a history of sexually transmitted disease in the previous five years for the female partner (odds ratio 3.1, 95% confidence interval 1.1 to 8.6); index patient with full blown AIDS (5.4, 1.2 to 25.2); and practice of anal intercourse (5.8, 2.3 to 14.8). The proportion of women positive for HIV antibody was 27% (42/155), ranging from 7% (1 to 13%) (4/60) for couples with none of the three risk factors to 67% (45 to 89%) (12/18) for those with two or three of the risk factors. Duration of the relationship (median three years), frequency of sexual contacts, sexual practices other than anal intercourse, and contraceptive behaviour were not associated with infection of the partner. CONCLUSIONS--The risk of sexual transmission of HIV from an infected man to his female partner varies considerably according to the characteristics of the couple. The differences in rates of transmission in high risk groups may be considerably reduced if the risk factors are taken into account during individual and public health counselling.	en
heal.journalName	British Medical Journal	en
heal.journalType	peer-reviewed
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