Commercial logging and HIV epidemic, rural Equatorial Africa

Laurent, C.; Bourgeois, A.; Mpoudi, M.; Butel, C.; Peeters, M.; Mpoudi-Ngolé, E.; Delaporte, E.

Emerging Infectious Diseases 10(11): 1953-1956

2004


ISSN/ISBN: 1080-6040
PMID: 15550206
DOI: 10.3201/eid1011.040180
Document Number: 237136
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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