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In fact, the HIV prevalence rate is 1.3 percent among adults.
In Nigeria, open-source SMS tools are being used by the Red Cross community workers to gather information from the local community in an attempt to better understand and mitigate the prevalence of malaria.
If you look at the blue line, the areas with low levels of malaria, you can see in those areas, actually, the number of sexual partners is decreasing a lot as HIV prevalence goes up.
The reason that we know that the ABC campaign was effective in Uganda is we have good data on prevalence over time.
In Uganda we see the prevalence went down.
Other places have tried things, so why don't we look at those places and see what happened to their prevalence?
Unfortunately, there's almost no good data on HIV prevalence in the general population in Africa until about 2003.
So if I asked you, "Why don't you go and find me the prevalence in Burkina Faso in 1991?"
So I can tell you what the prevalence was in Kenya in 2003, but I can't tell you anything about 1993 or 1983.
And I started thinking about how else might we figure out what the prevalence of HIV was in Africa in the past.
And I think that the answer is, we can look at mortality data, and we can use mortality data to figure out what the prevalence was in the past.
But because people who died this year of AIDS got it a few years ago, we can use this data on mortality to figure out what HIV prevalence was in the past.
So it turns out, if you use this technique, actually your estimates of prevalence are very close to what we get from testing random samples in the population, but they're very, very different than what UNAIDS tells us the prevalences are.
So this is a graph of prevalence estimated by UNAIDS, and prevalence based on the mortality data for the years in the late 1990s in nine countries in Africa.
You can see that for the prevalence to be as high as UNAIDS says, we have to really see 60 deaths per 10,000 rather than 20 deaths per 10,000 in this age group.
But that actually doesn't mean at all that if we gave people more exports, more trade, that that would increase prevalence.
By using this new data, using this information about prevalence over time, we can actually test that.
Because it is true that there was a decline in prevalence in Uganda in the 1990s.
So if you combine the intuition in this figure with some of the data that I talked about before, it suggests that somewhere between 25 percent and 50 percent of the decline in prevalence in Uganda actually would have happened even without any education campaign.
It's indigenous to China and the Far East, but given that the prevalence of malaria is here in Africa, Patrick and his colleagues said, "Let's bring it here, because it's a high value-add product."
The high prevalence of HIV drives researchers to conduct research that is sometimes scientifically acceptable but on many levels ethically questionable.
This short psychological intervention decreases the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues in the future, preparing Omar to get an education, join the workforce, raise a family and beyond.
And even with this high prevalence, women are misdiagnosed between 30 and 50 percent of the time.
In addition, we've changed our definition over time, so in fact we've widened the definition of autism, and that accounts for some of the increased prevalence that we see.
That was actually removed from vaccines in the year 1992, and you can see that it really did not have an effect in what happened with the prevalence of autism.
For many years, because there was no standardization in the definition of PMS, when psychologists tried to report prevalence rates, their estimates ranged from five percent of women to 97 percent of women, so at the same time almost no one and almost everyone had PMS.
This is a graph of autism prevalence estimates rising over time.
For decades, the prevalence estimates remained stable at just three or four children in 10,000.
They undertook a study of autism prevalence in the general population.
And its prevalence is rapidly increasing all over the world.
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