New Findings About Husbands, Wives and AIDS (1/2)

A common belief about AIDS and marriage is that husbands are more likely to infect wives than the other way around. Generally speaking this may be true. But a researcher has found that women may be responsible for more infections than experts have thought.

Vinod Mishra at Macro International, a research group in the United States, led a study of married couples in Africa. He studied what are known as discordant couples. This meant one partner had H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, while the other did not.

He examined population records and medical information from eleven African countries. He found that in four of these eleven countries, women were the infected partners in a majority of cases.

This was true in sixty-two percent of couples in Ivory Coast and Kenya. Wives also were the majority of infected partners in Ethiopia and Cameroon. Lesotho had the smallest percentage of couples where only the wife was infected. Yet even there it was thirty-four percent.

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对于AIDS和婚姻有一个普遍认同的观点，那就是丈夫比妻子更有可能传染给对方。一般而言，这是正确的。但是一个研究者发现妇女在传染问题上可能比专家过去想像中的负有更多的责任。

美国的麦科罗国际研究所的研究人员维罗德.米奇拉在主持一项关于非洲夫妇的研究。他所研究的就是被人们称为的不协惆夫妻，就是指其中一个感染了会引起AIDS的HIV病毒，而另一个没有。

他研究了11个非洲国家的人口记录和医疗信息。他发现11国家中的4个，绝大部分这样的（不协调）家庭中HIV携带者都是女方。

在象牙海岸和肯尼亚62%的夫妻的情况确实是这样。在埃塞尔比亚和喀麦隆情况也是如此。在莱索托妻子被传染的比例最小，但也有34%。