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The Mathematics of Concurrent Partnerships and HIV: A Commentary on Lurie and Rosenthal, 2009

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  1. “Sub-Saharan Africa contains only 3% of the global population,” the authors state, “but an alarming 68% of the world’s adults and children living with HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS 2007)." In fact, sub-Saharan Africa is home to 12.6% of the world's population, not 3%. (World Population Prospects: 2008 Revision).

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Epstein, H. The Mathematics of Concurrent Partnerships and HIV: A Commentary on Lurie and Rosenthal, 2009. AIDS Behav 14, 29–30 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-009-9627-x

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