2001
DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2001.10751229
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Twelve Years of HIV/AIDS in Ghana: Puzzles of Interpretation

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“…For example, a study in Côte d'Ivoire documenting the FSW population that accessed health clinics between 1991 and 1998 noted a major shift in country of origin over time, with Nigerian women surveyed increasing from 2 to 56% between 1992 and 1998, and Ghanaian women decreasing from 82 to 9% in the same time period [29]. Other studies reported the migration of Ghanaian FSWs to other countries in the 1990s and asserted that the significant economic and political crises in the country at that time contributed to this migration [3, 35]. The proportion of Liberian FSWs included in the same Ivorian study was shown to have increased from 0% in 1992 to 15% in 1995, and then to have declined to 2% in 1998 [94].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For example, a study in Côte d'Ivoire documenting the FSW population that accessed health clinics between 1991 and 1998 noted a major shift in country of origin over time, with Nigerian women surveyed increasing from 2 to 56% between 1992 and 1998, and Ghanaian women decreasing from 82 to 9% in the same time period [29]. Other studies reported the migration of Ghanaian FSWs to other countries in the 1990s and asserted that the significant economic and political crises in the country at that time contributed to this migration [3, 35]. The proportion of Liberian FSWs included in the same Ivorian study was shown to have increased from 0% in 1992 to 15% in 1995, and then to have declined to 2% in 1998 [94].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Historically and economically multifarious, the region has not been immune to the HIV epidemic. The first reported cases of HIV emerged in the mid-1980s, and national surveillance bodies such as National AIDS Committees (NACs) were established over the subsequent decade [3]. Early phylogenetic subtyping revealed unique regional dynamics, with both HIV-1 and HIV-2 circulating, and the majority of global cases of HIV-2 found in West Africa.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Understanding network structure is critical in developing and implementing prevention interventions for HIV (Jenness et al, 2016). Migrants and other mobile individuals historically have been shown to connect otherwise distinct networks, thereby influence ongoing HIV transmission (Coffee et al, 2007; Decosas, 1995; Martinez-Donate et al, 2015), including in Ghana (Agyei-Mensah, 2001; Anarfi, 1993; Decosas, 1995; Oppong, 1998). Broad population movement can influence infectious disease transmission (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although Ghana as a whole has a relatively low HIV prevalence of 1.4% among adults aged 15–49, 66 one of the study communities (the town of Agormanya, Lower Manya Krobo District, Eastern Region) has suffered a severe localized HIV epidemic believed to have been driven at least in part by the circular migration of young women from this community to Abidjan, the capital of neighboring Cote d'Ivoire, during the 1980s and early 1990s. 67–69 The most recent sentinel surveillance data estimate that the HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic in this area is 10.4%. 70 The other study community (Juapong) is 40 km away in a district (Central Tongu, Volta Region) where 2012 sentinel surveillance data estimate the HIV prevalence among pregnant women at 2.8%.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%