Open AccessSexual Partnership Patterns in Malawi: Implications for HIV/STI Transmission
Author(s) -
Kimberly A. Powers,
Irving Hoffman,
Azra C. Ghani,
Mina C. Hosseinipour,
Christopher D. Pilcher,
Matthew A. Price,
Audrey Pettifor,
David Chilongozi,
Francis Martinson,
Myron S. Cohen,
William C. Miller
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0b013e31820cb223
Subject(s) - general partnership , medicine , demographics , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , transmission (telecommunications) , contact tracing , population , sexual contact , partner notification , concurrency , virology , environmental health , gonorrhea , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , finance , syphilis , sociology , electrical engineering , economics , engineering , computer science , operating system
Concurrent sexual partnerships are believed to play an important role in HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but the contributions of concurrency to HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) spread depend on the details of infectious periods and relationship patterns. To contribute to the understanding of sexual partnership patterns in this region, we estimated partnership lengths, temporal gaps between partners, and periods of overlap across partners at an STI clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi.