Sentences with phrase «hiv in a given population»

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Though the mines help give Botswana, a country of 1.6 million people, a reasonably healthy economy, half the population lives in poverty, and the percentage of 15 - to -49-year-olds infected with HIV is the highest in the world.

The budget also removed the requirement for individuals in correctional facilities to give written consent for HIV testing, encouraged high - risk populations to use condoms by prohibiting prosecutors from using them as evidence in prostitution cases, and made it legal to possess syringes obtained through a syringe access program.

Any difference in the mouth microbiomes of people with HIV and those without the virus could give scientists clues about how a healthy population of oral microbes might help keep Candida in check, says medical mycologist Mahmoud Ghannoum of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

The three countries since 2004 collectively have received nearly $ 4 billion from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which gave ICAP $ 125 million to conduct what are known as population - based HIV impact assessments (PHIAs) in 12 sub-Saharan African countries and Haiti.

According to the authors, given the apparent differences between Western and Sub-Saharan African populations, additional studies are required to assess the basis of HIV - 1 disease in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as determine major determinants driving immune activation and inflammation in this population.