The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

NR Faria, A Rambaut, MA Suchard, G Baele, T Bedford… - science, 2014 - science.org
Thirty years after the discovery of HIV-1, the early transmission, dissemination, and
establishment of the virus in human populations remain unclear. Using statistical …

Prehistory of HIV-1

PM Sharp, BH Hahn - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
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Tracing the origin and history of the HIV-2 epidemic

P Lemey, OG Pybus, B Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
In this study we date the introduction of HIV-2 into the human population and estimate the
epidemic history of HIV-2 subtype A in Guinea-Bissau, the putative geographic origin of HIV …

Spatial phylodynamics of HIV-1 epidemic emergence in east Africa

RR Gray, AJ Tatem, S Lamers, W Hou… - Aids, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Design: We sought to investigate the evolutionary and historical reasons for the different
epidemiological patterns of HIV-1 in the early epidemic. In order to characterize the …

Reducing HIV transmission in developing countries

P Jha, NJD Nagelkerke, EN Ngugi, JVRP Rao… - Science, 2001 - science.org
The global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which has already infected more than 50
million people, has been inadequate, particularly in the developing world. In many countries …

From Pan to pandemic

RA Weiss, RW Wrangham - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
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The spread of HIV-1 in Africa: sexual contact patterns and the predicted demographic impact of AIDS

RM Anderson, RM May, MC Boily, GP Garnett… - Nature, 1991 - nature.com
The spread of HIV-1 in Africa is examined here in the light of recent information on the main
epidemiological and behavioural determinants of transmission. Mathematical models …

Origin of HIV type 1 in colonial French Equatorial Africa?

A Chitnis, D Rawls, J Moore - AIDS research and human …, 2000 - liebertpub.com
Sociocultural factors during the postcolonial period have been implicated as paramount in
generating conditions that promoted both the origin and subsequent epidemic spread of HIV …

Epidemiology of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States

JW Curran, HW Jaffe, AM Hardy, WM Morgan, RM Selik… - Science, 1988 - science.org
By the end of 1987, nearly 50,000 cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
had been reported since 1981, 20,745 in the past year alone. Black and Hispanic adults and …

HIV causes aids

W Blattner, RC Gallo, HM Temin - Science, 1988 - science.org
AIDS, a new disease, was first recogzed in 1981, clustered in male homosexuals,
intravenous drug abusers, and hemophiliacs in the United States and among sexually active …