2016
Occupational hazards of traditional healers: repeated unprotected blood exposures risk infectious disease transmission
Audet CM, Salato J, Blevins M, Silva W, González‐Calvo L, Vermund SH, Gaspar F. Occupational hazards of traditional healers: repeated unprotected blood exposures risk infectious disease transmission. Tropical Medicine And International Health 2016, 21: 1476-1480. PMID: 27580349, PMCID: PMC5093076, DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12775.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBlood exposureOccupational hazardsBlood-borne agentsTraditional healersWilcoxon rank sum testRank sum testHepatitis BC virusChronic illnessInfectious disease transmissionHigh prevalenceZambézia ProvincePast monthHealers' practicesChi-squareTraditional practitionersMedianPatientsDisease transmissionInjectionRandom sampleRural MozambiqueExposureHealersSimple random sample
2002
Transmission of HIV
Kristensen S, Sinkala M, Vermund S. Transmission of HIV. 2002, 217-230. DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47817-x_13.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSafe male circumcisionSustained antiretroviral therapyTransmission of HIVProportion of infectionsSexual partner numberAntiretroviral therapyHIV vaccineSexual exposureHIV preventionSTD treatmentHuman studiesMale circumcisionCondom useMale partnersBehavioral interventionsPartner numbersEmployment-related exposureInterventionHIVAdditional strategiesLower ratesHigh rateLimited valueSaharan AfricaExposure