The role of age-mixing patterns in HIV transmission dynamics: Novel hypotheses from a field study in Cape Town, South Africa

Background: Age-disparate relationships are thought to put young women at increased risk of HIV, though current evidence is inconclusive. Studying population-level age-mixing patterns as well as individual-level measures of age difference variation may provide insight into the persistence and magnit...

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Main Authors: Roxanne Beauclair, Niel Hens, Wim Delva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:Epidemics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436517301780