PLoS medicine
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Both food insufficiency and HIV infection are major public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the impact of food insufficiency on HIV risk behavior has not been systematically investigated. We tested the hypothesis that food insufficiency is associated with HIV transmission behavior. ⋯ Food insufficiency is an important risk factor for increased sexual risk-taking among women in Botswana and Swaziland. Targeted food assistance and income generation programs in conjunction with efforts to enhance women's legal and social rights may play an important role in decreasing HIV transmission risk for women.
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The authors argue that there have been few systematic attempts to determine the effectiveness of community engagement in research.
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Race and ethnicity are imprecise markers of the genotypic and sociocultural determinants of health, argue the authors.