Concurrent Partnerships and HIV Prevalence Disparities by Race: Linking Science and Public Health Practice

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2009 Apr 18

PMID 19372508

Citations 166

Authors

Martina Morris

Ann E Kurth

Deven T Hamilton

James Moody

Steve Wakefield

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Abstract

Concurrent sexual partnerships may help to explain the disproportionately high prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among African Americans. The persistence of such disparities would also require strong assortative mixing by race. We examined descriptive evidence from 4 nationally representative US surveys and found consistent support for both elements of this hypothesis. Using a data-driven network simulation model, we found that the levels of concurrency and assortative mixing observed produced a 2.6-fold racial disparity in the epidemic potential among young African American adults.

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