Publications by authors named "G M Mwaluko"
Background: Persons with absent partners may be more vulnerable to risky sexual behavior and therefore HIV. Partner absence can be due to traveling (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the feasibility of collecting sexual behaviour data during HIV surveillance in antenatal care (ANC) clinics, and to establish whether these data can provide information about the correlates of HIV infection in this population.
Methods: Sexual behaviour surveys were conducted in the context of two HIV sentinel surveillance rounds in 11 ANC clinics in north west Tanzania between 2000 and 2002. Responses of individual women were anonymously linked to their HIV status.
Objective: To investigate how mobility is related to sexual risk behavior and HIV infection, with special reference to the partners who stay behind in mobile couples.
Methods: HIV status, sexual behavior and demographic data of 2800 couples were collected in a longitudinal study in Kisesa, rural Tanzania. People were considered short-term mobile if they had slept outside the household at least once on the night before one of the five demographic interviews, and long-term mobile if they were living elsewhere at least once at the time of a demographic round.
Background: The steady decline in child mortality observed in most African countries through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s has stalled in many countries in the 1990s because of the AIDS epidemic. However, the census and household survey data that generally are used to produce estimates of child mortality do not permit precise measures of the adverse effect of HIV on child mortality.
Methods: To calculate excess risks of child mortality as the result of maternal HIV status, we used pooled data from 3 longitudinal community-based studies that classified births by the mother's HIV status.