Polygyny and the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a case of benign concurrency.

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Published in AIDS on January 16, 2010

Authors

Georges Reniers1, Susan Watkins

Author Affiliations

1: Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. greniers@princeton.edu

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