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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Infect. 2010 Nov 8;87(1):22–27. doi: 10.1136/sti.2009.041699

Table 1. Average attributable fractions due to specific interactions (percentage of annual HIV incidence among female sex workers (FSWs) due to interactions with HSV-2).

Best-fit attributable fraction
(95% confidence intervals from all fits)
Specific interaction % of HIV incidence among FSW due to
specific interaction with HSV-2
All interactions combined 35.5
(22.2-62.5)
Increased susceptibility and infectivity of HIV in the presence of asymptomatic HSV-2 shedding alone 32.4
(20.4-59.5)
Increased susceptibility and infectivity of HIV in the presence of symptomatic HSV-2 recurrences alone 3.0
(1.4-4.3)
Increased susceptibility to HIV among HSV-2-infected FSWs 24.6
(11.2-46.7)
Increased infectivity of HIV from coinfected clients* 10.4
(2.3-32.5)
*

Includes implicitly the static effect on HIV transmission of the increased HSV-2 symptomatic recurrence rate among coinfected clients