Key to Prevent HIV in Women: Reduce Gender-Based Violence. 3/7/10
By Jay G Silverman
3 July 2010
Volume 376, Issue 9734, Pages 6 - 7
In The Lancet today, Rachel Jewkes and colleagues provide the first prospective demonstration of the role of violence from male partners in increasing women's risk of incident HIV infection. In women who were HIV negative at baseline, those experiencing violence from a male partner were more likely to become infected with HIV than were those not experiencing such violence.
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