       Document 0666
 DOCN  M9620666
 TI    Epidemiology of HIV infection among long distance truck drivers in
       Kenya.
 DT    9602
 AU    Mbugua GG; Muthami LN; Mutura CW; Oogo SA; Waiyaki PG; Lindan CP; Hearst
       N; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
 SO    East Afr Med J. 1995 Aug;72(8):515-8. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96060425
 AB    A total number of two hundred eighty three long distance truck drivers
       and their assistants (loaders) who ferry goods between Kenya and Zaire
       were included in a cross-sectional study between September 1991 and
       April 1992. Twenty six percent of the study subjects were seropositive
       for HIV-1 and none were HIV-2 seropositive. Countries of birth and
       residence were significantly associated with HIV infection (X2 = 23.6, P
       = 0.0006). Significant associations were also found between HIV
       seropositivity and level of education from secondary school and above
       (OR = 3.4, 95% C.I. = 1.01-11.55); being circumcised was more
       protective, (OR = 0.38; 95% C.I. = 0.19-0.76), history of many years of
       driving (X2 = 9.3, p = 0.0254) and income (OR = 11.13, 95% C.I. =
       1.35-91.95). When a stepwise multiple logistic regression model was
       fitted to all the variables observed to be significant in the univariate
       analysis, the following risk factors attained statistical significance:
       lack of circumcision (OR = 3.75); income greater than Ksh. 2000 (OR =
       7.24); being employed in long distance driving more than 11 years (OR =
       3.98); and secondary school education and above (OR = 4.06, 95% C.I. =
       1.18-13.98). Reference for all the above Odds Ratios was 1.
 DE    Adult  *Automobile Driving  Circumcision  Cross-Sectional Studies
       Educational Status  Human  HIV Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  Income
       Kenya/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Male  Occupations  Risk Factors  Support, Non-U.S.
       Gov't  Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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