Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slick men often leave vulnerable women with broken hearts, but Williams left his many girlfriends in danger of far worse. According to Chautauqua health officials, Williams is the source of a near epidemic of HIV in the county of 141,000 and has caused the greatest public health crisis the area has ever faced. Since learning that he was HIV-positive in September 1996, Williams has had sex with dozens of young women in and around Jamestown, N.Y., and also in New York City, apparently without ever using protection or disclosing his condition...
...study shows that the long held belief that female donors are better than male donors may no longer hold true if the incidents of HIV infection in females continues to increase...
...When HIV incidence is high, there are more people entering the window. However it is also important how quickly those infected leave the window or become symptomatic--progress from HIV infection to AIDS...
...order to better determine HIV prevalence, the researchers determined that the incidence of AIDS should also be taken into account. Their model focuses on the ratio of HIV over AIDS incidence as an important determinant of error...
According to this model, the window error is likely to be highest in groups where AIDS incidence is low, but HIV incidence is growing. A group that fits this criteria are females in their twenties...