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. 2020 Jan 6;12(1):67.
doi: 10.3390/v12010067.

The Impact of Human Mobility on Regional and Global Efforts to Control HIV Transmission

Emily A Eshraghian  1 , Sepideh N Ferdos  1 , Sanjay R Mehta  2   3
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The Impact of Human Mobility on Regional and Global Efforts to Control HIV Transmission

Emily A Eshraghian et al. Viruses. .

Abstract

HIV prevention and control methods are implemented on different scales to reduce the spread of the virus amongst populations. However, despite such efforts, HIV continues to persist in populations with a global incidence rate of 1.8 million in 2017 alone. The introduction of new infections into susceptible regional populations promotes the spread of HIV, indicating a crucial need to study the impact of migration and mobility on regional and global efforts to prevent HIV transmission. Here we reviewed studies that assess the impact of human mobility on HIV transmission and spread. We found an important role for both travel and migration in driving the spread of HIV across regional and national borders. Combined, our results indicate that even in the presence of control and preventive efforts, if migration and travel are occurring, public health efforts will need to remain persistent to ensure that new infections do not grow into outbreaks.

Keywords: HIV; disease surveillance; molecular epidemiology; prevention and care; public health response; transmission networks.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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