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  • Title: [Prevalence of HIV-positive persons is high in groups of Africans].
    Author: Christenson B, Lundbergh P.
    Journal: Lakartidningen; 1993 Jun 30; 90(26-27):2468-9. PubMed ID: 8316040.
    Abstract:
    In a reply to Sven Britton's concern about references to Africans and their differing sexual views, it is stated that in recent years 40% of asylum seekers from Uganda were infected by HIV. The explosive spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases can be traced to a pattern of multiple sex partners as among homosexuals in the United States. According to the World Health Organization, in 1992, 211,032 AIDS cases were reported from Africa and 242,146 from the US. WHO estimated in 1993 that there were 7.5 million HIV-infected people in Africa and 2 million in the US. However, there is massive under-reported of AIDS cases in Africa, where, the disease is spread mainly through heterosexual contact. Among a total of 264 HIV-infected Africans reported in Sweden, 50 (19%) were persons who violated the law on infection prevention. There are about people in Stockholm county aged 18-49 who originate from African countries, of whom 131 are known to be infected with HIV (1 of 25). The risk of HIV infection is 122 times higher with an African through sexual contact than with other foreigners (29 HIV-infected out of 81,000). The risk of 3009 times higher with an African man than with a Swedish man (56 HIV-infected out of 400,000 men). Heterosexual transmission is more disconcerting than homosexual transmission, because the latter represents only a small part of the world's 10 million HIV-infected. In Sweden more heterosexually than homosexually transmitted cases are reported. The patients treating physician reports him/her to the infection prevention doctor. 8 of Sweden's 24 infection prevention doctors have admitted problems with HIV-infected Africans, and 4 counties confined HIV-infected Africans on account of violating the law. Swedish citizens who break the law of other countries are deported to Sweden; consequently, foreigners can be deported to their countries if they violate Swedish law.
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