Spatiotemporal clusters of HIV/AIDS infections caused by drug use and heterosexual contact in Ruili city, China 1989-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ruili is a border city in southwest China along the heroin trafficking route. In recent decades, the city has witnessed increased in HIV transmission. The current study aims to explore the spatiotemporal trends in HIV prevalence identify and map the spatial variation and clustering of factors associated with HIV transmission through drug use and heterosexual contact transmissions at the village level from 1989 through 2016.

Methods

Geographic information system-based spatiotemporal analyses, including global and local spatial autocorrelation analyses and space-time scanning statistics, were applied to detect the location and extent of HIV/AIDS high-risk areas.

Results

Drug use and heterosexual contact were identified as the major transmission routes causing

SUBMITTER: Jiang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822478 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature