Published in Lancet on June 01, 2002
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Creating and validating an algorithm to measure AIDS mortality in the adult population using verbal autopsy. PLoS Med (2006) 2.70
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Role of widows in the heterosexual transmission of HIV in Manicaland, Zimbabwe, 1998-2003. Sex Transm Infect (2009) 1.59
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Measuring trends in age at first sex and age at marriage in Manicaland, Zimbabwe. Sex Transm Infect (2009) 1.28
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HIV risk among young African American men who have sex with men: a case-control study in Mississippi. Am J Public Health (2010) 1.24
Relating diarrheal disease to social networks and the geographic configuration of communities in rural Ecuador. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 1.22
Associations between sexual behaviour change in young people and decline in HIV prevalence in Zambia. BMC Public Health (2007) 1.21
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The incidence of HIV among women recruited during late pregnancy and followed up for six years after childbirth in Zimbabwe. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.10
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Integrated strategies for combination HIV prevention: principles and examples for men who have sex with men in the Americas and heterosexual African populations. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2013) 1.09
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Multiple recent sexual partnerships and alcohol use among sexually transmitted infection clinic patients, Cape Town, South Africa. Sex Transm Dis (2011) 1.08
The relationship between age of coital debut and HIV seroprevalence among women in Durban, South Africa: a cohort study. BMJ Open (2012) 1.07
Oral and anal sex practices among high school youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.03
Mathematical models for HIV transmission dynamics: tools for social and behavioral science research. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2008) 1.02
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Socio-Demographic Determinants of Condom Use Among Sexually Active Young Adults in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Open AIDS J (2010) 1.00
HIV prevalence by race co-varies closely with concurrency and number of sex partners in South Africa. PLoS One (2013) 1.00
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HIV and population dynamics: a general model and maximum-likelihood standards for east Africa. Demography (2003) 1.00
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Older sexual partners may contribute to racial disparities in HIV among young men who have sex with men. J Adolesc Health (2013) 0.96
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Modelling HIV incidence and survival from age-specific seroprevalence after antiretroviral treatment scale-up in rural South Africa. AIDS (2013) 0.94
How does sex trafficking increase the risk of HIV Infection? An observational study from Southern India. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 0.94
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Women underestimate the age of their partners during survey interviews: implications for HIV risk associated with age mixing in northern Malawi. Sex Transm Dis (2011) 0.91
The prevalence, incidence and risk factors of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection among pregnant Zimbabwean women followed up nine months after childbirth. BMC Womens Health (2010) 0.91
Overview of microbicides for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol (2012) 0.90
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Sexual risk behaviors among youth heads of household in Gikongoro, south province of Rwanda. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.89
Partner age differences and concurrency in South Africa: Implications for HIV-infection risk among young women. AIDS Behav (2014) 0.89
Assessing the validity of respondents' reports of their partners' ages in a rural South African population-based cohort. BMJ Open (2015) 0.88
Porn video shows, local brew, and transactional sex: HIV risk among youth in Kisumu, Kenya. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.88
Effects of neighbourhood-level educational attainment on HIV prevalence among young women in Zambia. BMC Public Health (2009) 0.87
Social and behavioral correlates of sexually transmitted infection- and HIV-discordant sexual partnerships in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2009) 0.86
Poverty, food insufficiency and HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young rural Zimbabwean women. PLoS One (2015) 0.86
Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: evidence from Malawi. Demography (2009) 0.86
Comparison of sexual mixing patterns for syphilis in endemic and outbreak settings. Sex Transm Dis (2011) 0.86
Transmission networks and risk of HIV infection in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a community-wide phylogenetic study. Lancet HIV (2016) 0.86
Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions. Science (2003) 12.26
Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong. Lancet (2003) 10.74
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HIV decline associated with behavior change in eastern Zimbabwe. Science (2006) 6.98
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Effect of concurrent sexual partnerships on rate of new HIV infections in a high-prevalence, rural South African population: a cohort study. Lancet (2011) 5.58
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Planning for smallpox outbreaks. Nature (2003) 4.16
Will travel restrictions control the international spread of pandemic influenza? Nat Med (2006) 3.89
Public health. Public health risk from the avian H5N1 influenza epidemic. Science (2004) 3.71
An estimate of the global prevalence and incidence of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 3.62
Methods to reduce social desirability bias in sex surveys in low-development settings: experience in Zimbabwe. Sex Transm Dis (2002) 3.34
Host immunity and synchronized epidemics of syphilis across the United States. Nature (2005) 3.34
Can highly active antiretroviral therapy reduce the spread of HIV?: A study in a township of South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2004) 3.19
Effects of unconditional and conditional cash transfers on child health and development in Zimbabwe: a cluster-randomised trial. Lancet (2013) 2.98
Increase in condom use and decline in HIV and sexually transmitted diseases among female sex workers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 1991-1998. AIDS (2002) 2.97
Real-time estimates in early detection of SARS. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 2.87
Potential impact of antiretroviral chemoprophylaxis on HIV-1 transmission in resource-limited settings. PLoS One (2007) 2.84
Association between genital schistosomiasis and HIV in rural Zimbabwean women. AIDS (2006) 2.83
Optimal uses of antiretrovirals for prevention in HIV-1 serodiscordant heterosexual couples in South Africa: a modelling study. PLoS Med (2011) 2.76
Scale-free networks and sexually transmitted diseases: a description of observed patterns of sexual contacts in Britain and Zimbabwe. Sex Transm Dis (2004) 2.75
Uptake of workplace HIV counselling and testing: a cluster-randomised trial in Zimbabwe. PLoS Med (2006) 2.71
A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative interviewing tools to investigate self-reported HIV and STI associated behaviours in low- and middle-income countries. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 2.59
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Study of bias in antenatal clinic HIV-1 surveillance data in a high contraceptive prevalence population in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS (2002) 2.36
The epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome in the 2003 Hong Kong epidemic: an analysis of all 1755 patients. Ann Intern Med (2004) 2.36
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Chronic cough in primary health care attendees, Harare, Zimbabwe: diagnosis and impact of HIV infection. Clin Infect Dis (2005) 2.06
Provider-initiated symptom screening for tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: diagnostic value and the effect of HIV status. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 2.03
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Handheld computers for self-administered sensitive data collection: a comparative study in Peru. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak (2008) 1.82
Beer halls as a focus for HIV prevention activities in rural Zimbabwe. Sex Transm Dis (2005) 1.72
Patterns of movement and risk of HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe. J Infect Dis (2005) 1.62
Potential impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV-1 transmission and AIDS mortality in resource-limited settings. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2006) 1.62
The risk and timing of tuberculosis diagnosed in smear-negative TB suspects: a 12 month cohort study in Harare, Zimbabwe. PLoS One (2010) 1.60
Critique of early models of the demographic impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa based on contemporary empirical data from Zimbabwe. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.58
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Sex with stitches: assessing the resumption of sexual activity during the postcircumcision wound-healing period. AIDS (2012) 1.54
Nursing and community rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among students in Harare, Zimbabwe. Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.54
Age at first sex and HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe. Stud Fam Plann (2007) 1.53
The future of the HIV pandemic. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 1.50
Implications of BSE infection screening data for the scale of the British BSE epidemic and current European infection levels. Proc Biol Sci (2002) 1.49
Can chemotherapy alone eliminate the transmission of soil transmitted helminths? Parasit Vectors (2014) 1.44
Plagiarism in scientific publications. J Infect Dev Ctries (2009) 1.43
Epidemiological and genetic analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 1.43
Human papillomavirus in a rural community in Zimbabwe: the impact of HIV co-infection on HPV genotype distribution. J Med Virol (2004) 1.42
Changing patterns of knowledge, reported behaviour and sexually transmitted infections in a South African gold mining community. AIDS (2003) 1.42
Patterns of self-reported behaviour change associated with receiving voluntary counselling and testing in a longitudinal study from Manicaland, Zimbabwe. AIDS Behav (2009) 1.41
Simple clinical manifestations of genital Schistosoma haematobium infection in rural Zimbabwean women. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2005) 1.38
Updated projections of future vCJD deaths in the UK. BMC Infect Dis (2003) 1.33
Frequent travelers and rate of spread of epidemics. Emerg Infect Dis (2007) 1.29
Malaria epidemiology and control in Southern Africa. Acta Trop (2011) 1.28
Individual level injection history: a lack of association with HIV incidence in rural Zimbabwe. PLoS Med (2005) 1.28
Changes in the burden of malaria following scale up of malaria control interventions in Mutasa District, Zimbabwe. Malar J (2013) 1.24
SARS-CoV antibody prevalence in all Hong Kong patient contacts. Emerg Infect Dis (2004) 1.23
Does increased general schooling protect against HIV infection? A study in four African cities. Trop Med Int Health (2004) 1.20
Chapter 18: Public health policy for cervical cancer prevention: the role of decision science, economic evaluation, and mathematical modeling. Vaccine (2006) 1.20
Exploring the Cinderella myth: intrahousehold differences in child wellbeing between orphans and non-orphans in Amajuba District, South Africa. AIDS (2007) 1.19
Evaluating the epidemiological impact of national control programmes for helminths. Trends Parasitol (2004) 1.19
Mortality in patients with successful initial response to highly active antiretroviral therapy is still higher than in non-HIV-infected individuals. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2005) 1.17
The epidemiological and control implications of HIV transmission probabilities within partnerships. Sex Transm Dis (2002) 1.17
Measuring and correcting biased child mortality statistics in countries with generalized epidemics of HIV infection. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.17
The cost-effectiveness of syndromic management in pharmacies in Lima, Peru. Sex Transm Dis (2003) 1.15
Factors determining the pattern of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) epidemic in the UK. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 1.14
Underwhelming the immune response: effect of slow virus growth on CD8+-T-lymphocyte responses. J Virol (2004) 1.14
Understanding the modes of transmission model of new HIV infection and its use in prevention planning. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 1.14
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Rapid awareness and transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hanoi French Hospital, Vietnam. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2005) 1.12
Antiretroviral therapy to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS in resource-poor settings. Nat Med (2002) 1.11
Patterns of uptake of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa in the pre-treatment era. Trop Med Int Health (2012) 1.10
Genital schistosomiasis in women: a clinical 12-month in vivo study following treatment with praziquantel. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2006) 1.10
Female genital schistosomiasis--a differential diagnosis to sexually transmitted disease: genital itch and vaginal discharge as indicators of genital Schistosoma haematobium morbidity in a cross-sectional study in endemic rural Zimbabwe. Trop Med Int Health (2008) 1.04
Voluntary counseling and testing by nurse counselors: what is the role of routine repeated testing after a negative result? Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.04
Mitigation strategies for pandemic influenza A: balancing conflicting policy objectives. PLoS Comput Biol (2011) 1.03
How well are we managing the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in the UK? BMJ (2009) 1.01
Evaluating the proximate determinants framework for HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe. Sex Transm Infect (2007) 1.00
Identifying recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in the setting of high HIV and TB burden. Thorax (2010) 0.98
Rapid emergence of resistance to penicillin and trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole in invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae in Zimbabwe. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2003) 0.98
Comparison of the risks of atherosclerotic events versus death from other causes associated with antiretroviral use. AIDS (2006) 0.97