SEROPREVALENCY OF THE HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIE NCY-VIRUS (HIV) INFECTION AT THE CENTRAL PRISON OF NIAMEY (NIGER)

Authors
OUSSEINI H
Citation
H. Ousseini, SEROPREVALENCY OF THE HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIE NCY-VIRUS (HIV) INFECTION AT THE CENTRAL PRISON OF NIAMEY (NIGER), Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales, 87(3), 1994, pp. 190-190
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
Journal title
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales → ACNP
ISSN journal
00379085
Volume
87
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
190 - 190
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9085(1994)87:3<190:SOTHN(>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A study on seroprevalency among six hundred and sixty prisoners incarc erated at the central prison of Niamey (Niger) where toxicomania by in travenous injection is inexistent but homosexual probability does exis t, the prison being a very closed circle, showed that 0.45 % of the pr isoners where carrying the anti body anti-HIV. This rate being about t he same found in the general population 0.50 %.