CGPH FACULTY: Ndola Prata, Coco Auerswald
DATE OF PUBLICATION: October 2015
REGION: Africa
REFERENCE: Goldblatt A, Kwena Z, Lahiff M, Agot K, Minnis A, Prata N, Lin J, Bukusi EA, Auerswald CL. Prevalence and Correlates of HIV Infection among Street Boys in Kisumu, Kenya. PLoS One. 2015 Oct 13;10(10):e0140005. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140005. eCollection 2015.
SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Despite their perceived vulnerability to HIV, East African street youth have been neglected in HIV prevention research. We examined HIV seroprevalence and correlates of HIV infection in a sample of male street youth in Kisumu, Kenya. Although HIV prevalence in our sample of street youth is comparable to that of similarly-aged male youth in Nyanza Province, our findings highlight behavioral factors associated with HIV infection that offer opportunities for targeted prevention among street youth in East Africa.
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