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HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone: Characterizing the Hidden Epidemic
- Source :
- Aids Reviews. 20
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Publicidad Permanyer, SLU, 2019.
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Abstract
- Sierra Leone is a low-income West African country that has dealt with waves of economic, political, and public health challenges in its recent past, including a decade-long brutal civil war and the Ebola epidemic of 2014-2016. The HIV/AIDS epidemic, which has raged on in the country since 1987, has long been characterized as stable. The latest UNAIDS report estimates a countrywide HIV prevalence rate of 1.7% in 2016 among adults aged 15-49 years. However, there are indications that the epidemic may be in fact escalating and unless arrested urgently, has the potential to deteriorate into a major public health emergency. Although there are high levels of HIV awareness among adults (over 94%), uptake in voluntary HIV testing has remained low (
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
HIV Infections
Hiv testing
030312 virology
medicine.disease_cause
Sierra Leone
Sierra leone
03 medical and health sciences
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Humans
Mass Screening
Medicine
Pharmacology (medical)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Molecular Epidemiology
0303 health sciences
business.industry
Public health
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Hiv prevalence
Antiretroviral therapy
Infectious Diseases
Anti-Retroviral Agents
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 11396121
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Aids Reviews
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f1bcb1a4b61d8c0ded590c0dc841f1a