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Close the gender gap in Africa’s HIV epidemic

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Improving HIV interventions for men could reduce HIV acquisition in women, close the growing gender gap in HIV infections and further reduce HIV incidence in African countries.

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Fig. 1: Changing dynamics of the HIV epidemic in Uganda across 15 years (2003–2018) impact virus transmission flows, with important implications for contemporary strategies to end the HIV epidemic.

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  1. University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bryan Tegomoh

  2. Division of Infectious Disease, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Boghuma K. Titanji

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Tegomoh, B., Titanji, B.K. Close the gender gap in Africa’s HIV epidemic. Nat Microbiol 9, 8–10 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01535-3

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