Sentence examples for bridge populations from inspiring English sources

The spread of infection is determined by patterns of sex partner selection, the relative risk of infection is associated with particular social networks and the existence of bridge populations [1].

They also serve as "bridge populations" that can transfer these infections from animals to the wider public, he says.

These results have important implications both for future research and future interventions to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV in these vulnerable, potential bridge populations.

There is ample evidence that the HIV epidemic has already moved from the high-risk groups via bridge populations into the general population [ 1].

Although up to now the epidemic in China has remained concentrated in risk groups, there is increasing concern that HIV might spread via bridge populations such as female sex workers [ 16, 17] or surplus men [ 18] into the general population.

We will pay you the same amount that which we pay to those guys so why can't you do the same to us?"—Female sex worker Calicut The potential for South Indian FSW and MMW to serve as bridge populations for HIV to the general population makes them particularly important groups for AIDS prevention efforts.

They are not just a bridge population, he and many others maintain, but their own stop in the road.

The magic that has delivered Delhomme to the top of his sport started in Breaux Bridge, population 7,281 in the 2000 census, a wisp of a town two hours west of New Orleans.

The C1s spectra drastically change with increasing the annealing temperature: they lose intensity due to CO desorption while the ratio on-top to bridge population clearly increases with increasing the temperature.

Early in the HIV pandemic, truck drivers along the trans-African highways and in Asia were increasingly recognized as a high risk bridge population for HIV infection [5], [6], [7].

We have used data from large cohort studies on STI patients in Pune, India in modeled scenarios to study the extent of retention and determinants of retention in male STI patients that constitutes an important bridge population in HIV transmission in India [11].