The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9734 , Pages 6 - 7, 3 July 2010
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60971-3Cite or Link Using DOI This
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Diseases (HIV/AIDS) Key to prevent HIV in women: reduce gender-
based violence In The Lancet today, Rachel Jewkes and colleagues
1 provide the first prospective demonstration of the role of
violence from male partners in increasing women's risk of
incident HIV infection. In women who were HIV negative at
baseline, those experiencing violence from a male partner were
more likely to become infected with HIV than were those not
experiencing such violence. Previous large investigations
(including those involving nationally representative data)
across multiple countries in Asia and ... This article is made
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