HIV incidence and risk factors for seroconversion among female sex workers and single mothers in a 10-year prospective cohort
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare HIV incidence among female sex workers (FSW) and single mothers, and to determine the factors associated with seroconversion among both populations. DESIGN: Prospective cohort conducted in Lusaka and Ndola, Zambia between 2012 and 2022. METHODS: Study staff recruited FSW from common sex work locales and recruited single mothers from postnatal infant vaccination clinics. Enrolled participants were HIV-negative, aged 18-45, and identified as either a FSW or single mother. We measured HIV incidence and assessed associated factors using Poisson regression with adjusted rate ratios (aRRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). RESULTS: The study enrolled 2539 women (1533 FSW and 1006 single mothers). HIV incidence was not statistically different for FSW (3.24 per 100 person-years; 95% CI: 2.63-3.95) and single mothers (2.64 per 100 person-years; 95% CI: 2.00-3.43). Factors associated with HIV seroconversion were positive syphilis (aRR: 2.03; 95% CI: 1.46-2.83) and trichomonas (aRR: 1.48; 95% CI: 1.06-2.06) diagnoses, inconsistent condom use (aRR: 1.60; 95% CI: 1.06-2.40), and greater than 6months follow-up time in the study (aRR: 2.45; 95% CI: 1.52-3.94). CONCLUSIONS: Single mothers share similar HIV risk to FSW, and both populations require targeted interventions. For single mothers, government postnatal clinics should combine comprehensive sexual education with screening and treatment for syphilis and trichomoniasis. For FSW, we recommend integrated and accessible interventions to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Future studies should investigate the social determinants of condom use among both FSW and single mothers.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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