HIV acquisition is associated with prior high-risk human papillomavirus infection among high-risk women in Rwanda.
As part of a prospective cohort study to assess HIV incidence among high-risk women in Kigali, Rwanda, we evaluated the association between high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and subsequent HIV acquisition. Women who seroconverted for HIV between the first and second HPV measurement visit were 4.9 times [95% confidence interval = 1.2-19.7] more likely to have HR-HPV detected at the first visit compared with women who remained HIV-negative.
Veldhuijzen
Nienke J
NJ
Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Poverty-related Communicable Diseases, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, The Netherlands. n.veldhuijzen@amc-cpcd.org
Vyankandondera
Joseph
J
van de Wijgert
Janneke H
JH
D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000821:virology; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000276:immunology*; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000821:virology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012432:Rwanda / Q000453:epidemiology