Migration and HIV infection in Malawi.
Migration and HIV infection in Malawi.
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DOI:
10.1097/qad.0000000000001150
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发表时间:
2016-08-24
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Kohler HP
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Anglewicz P;VanLandingham M;Manda-Taylor L;Kohler HP
To evaluate the assumption that moving heightens HIV infection by examining the time-order between migration and HIV infection, and investigate differences in HIV infection by migration destination and permanence. We employ four waves of longitudinal data (2004–2010) for 4,265 men and women from a household-based study in rural Malawi, and a follow-up of migrants (2013). Using these data, we examine HIV status prior to migration. Migrants are disaggregated by destination (rural, town, urban), and duration (return, permanent); all compared to individuals who consistently resided in the rural origin (“non-migrants”). HIV positive individuals have significantly greater odds of migration than those who are HIV negative (OR 2.75; 95% CI 1.89–4.01). Being HIV positive significantly increases the relative risk that respondent will be a rural-urban migrant (RRR 6.28; 95% CI 1.77–22.26), rural-town migrant (RRR 3.62; 95% CI 1.24–10.54), and a rural-rural migrant (RRR 4.09; 95% CI 1.68–9.97), instead of a non-migrant. Being HIV positive significantly increases the relative risk that a respondent will move and return to the village of origin (RRR 2.58; 95% CI 1.82–3.66), and become a permanent migrant (RRR 3.21; 95% CI 1.77–5.82) instead of not migrating. HIV-positive status has a profound impact on mobility: HIV infection leads to significantly higher mobility through all forms of migration captured in our study. These findings emphasize that migration is more than just an independent risk factor for HIV infection: greater prevalence of HIV among migrants is partly due to selection of HIV positive individuals into migration.