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Home / Archives for João Dinis Sousa

Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–1960

  • Autores: João Dinis Sousa, Philip J Havik, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Medical History, 65(2), pp 178 - 196
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.11

ABSTRACT During the colonial period sexually transmitted infections (STIs) came to be recognised as a major public health problem in African cities. Thus, STI control and urban modernisation became deeply entangled as authorities redrew spatial and social boundaries to manage populations and their cross-cultural interaction. Public health measures, urban planning and policing were part of […]
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Newly Discovered Archival Data Show Coincidence of a Peak of Sexually Transmitted Diseases with the Early Epicenter of Pandemic HIV-1

  • Autores: João Dinis Sousa, Philip J Havik, Viktor Müller, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Viruses, 13(9), art 1701
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/v13091701

ABSTRACT To which extent STDs facilitated HIV-1 adaptation to humans, sparking the pandemic, is still unknown. We searched colonial medical records from 1906–1958 for Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, which was the initial epicenter of pandemic HIV-1, compiling counts of treated STD cases in both Africans and Europeans. Almost all Europeans were being treated, while for Africans, […]
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Comparison of two simulators for individual based models in HIV epidemiology in a population with HSV 2 in Yaoundé (Cameroon)

  • Autores: Diana M Hendrickx, João Dinis Sousa, Pieter J K Libin, Wim Delva, Jori Liesenborgs, Niel Hens, Viktor Müller, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: Scientific Reports, 11, art 14696
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94289-z

ABSTRACT Model comparisons have been widely used to guide intervention strategies to control infectious diseases. Agreement between different models is crucial for providing robust evidence for policy-makers because differences in model properties can influence their predictions. In this study, we compared models implemented by two individual-based model simulators for HIV epidemiology in a heterosexual population […]
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On the contribution of Angola to the initial spread of HIV-1

  • Autores: Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña, Jorge Varanda, João Dinis Sousa, Kristof Theys, Inês Bártolo, Thomas Leitner, Nuno Taveira, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Ana B. Abecasis
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: Infection Genetics and Evolution, 46(December), pp 219-222
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2016.08.009

HIGHLIGHTS • We show for the first time the role of Angola in the early spread of the HIV epidemic. • The first introduction of HIV-1 to Angola could have occurred between 1910 and 1940. • Migrations out of Kinshasa were directed to Luanda, as much as to other cities of DRC. • Colonial migration […]
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