"AIDS and Migrant Populations in Nicaragua"

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"AIDS and Migrant Populations in Nicaragua"

Lancet (12/22-29/90) Vol. 336, No. 8730, P. 1593
Low, Nicola, et al.

Abstract: Researchers have suggested that the return of Contra troops from Honduras would boost the HIV rate in Nicaragua, but the prevalence remains low and extant education programs may impede the progress of the epidemic, writes Nicola Low of the Regional Infectious Disease Unit, Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool. Seroprevalence studies of returning Contras performed voluntarily show extremely low rates of HIV infection in mainly self-reported heterosexuals. Fear of exploding HIV infection from Honduras arises because the country has the highest AIDS rate in Central America, a portion of which has been attributed to prostitutes infected by U.S. soldiers. Estimates of HIV infection in the migrant Contra population are not as high as feared, and health education against AIDS existed in Nicaragua before the first case was identified. Continuation of such AIDS prevention campaigns could prevent progression of the epidemic in Nicaragua, Low writes.

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