1. A Spatiotemporal Analysis of HIV-Associated Mortality in Rural Western Kenya 2011-2015
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Lucas Otieno, Bernhards Ogutu, Janet Oyieko, John Owuoth, Jessica Cowden, Valentine Singoei, Walter Otieno, Ben Andagalu, Peter Sifuna, and Sheila Ogwang
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Rural Population ,verbal autopsy ,Epidemiology ,Hiv epidemic ,Population ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,HIV Infections ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,medicine.disease_cause ,History, 21st Century ,03 medical and health sciences ,geographic differences ,0302 clinical medicine ,HDSS ,medicine ,Humans ,Pharmacology (medical) ,030212 general & internal medicine ,education ,education.field_of_study ,Cold spot ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Spatiotemporal Analysis ,Hazard ratio ,HIV ,Kenya ,mortality ,Infectious Diseases ,Mortality data ,Population Surveillance ,business ,Demography ,clustering - Abstract
Background: Reliable data on the HIV epidemic is critical for the measurement of the impact of HIV response and for the implementation of further interventions. Methods: We used mortality data from the Kombewa health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015 to examine the space–time pattern of HIV-associated mortality. HIV mortality rate was calculated per 1000 persons living with HIV (for comparison with regional and national averages) and per 1000 person-years (p-y) for comparison with data from other HDSS sites. We used the Optimized Hot Spot Analysis to examine whether HIV-associated deaths would form statistically significant local aggregation in the 5-year period. P-value of
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- 2018