Commercial Logging and HIV Epidemic, Rural Equatorial Africa

We found a high seroprevalence of HIV among young women in a commercial logging area in Cameroon. The vulnerability of these young women could be related to commercial logging and the social and economic networks it induces. The environmental changes related to this industry in Equatorial Africa may...

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Autores principales: Laurent, Christian, Bourgeois, Anke, Mpoudi, Mireille, Butel, Christelle, Peeters, Martine, Mpoudi-Ngolé, Eitel, Delaporte, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15550206
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1011.040180
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Sumario:We found a high seroprevalence of HIV among young women in a commercial logging area in Cameroon. The vulnerability of these young women could be related to commercial logging and the social and economic networks it induces. The environmental changes related to this industry in Equatorial Africa may facilitate HIV dissemination.

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