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- Title
Ubiquitous burden: the contribution of migration to AIDS and Tuberculosis mortality in rural South Africa.
- Authors
Philipe, Bocquier; Mark A., Collinson; Samuel J., Clark; Annette A. M., Gerritsen; Kahn, Kathleen; TollMan, Stephen M.
- Abstract
The paper aims to estimate the extent to which migrants are contributing to AIDS or tuberculosis (TB) mortality among rural sub-district populations. The Agincourt (South Africa) health and socio-demographic surveillance system provided comprehensive data on vital and migration events between 1994 and 2006. AIDS and TB cause-deleted life expectancy, and crude death rates by gender, migration status and period were computed. The annualised crude death rate almost tripled from 5.39 [95% CI 5.13-5.65] to 15.10 [95% CI 14.62-15.59] per 1000 over the years 1994-2006. The contribution of AIDS and TB in returned migrants to the increase in crude death rate was 78.7% [95% CI 77.4-80.1] for males and 44.4% [95% CI 43.2-46.1] for females. So, in a typical South African setting dependent on labour migration for rural livelihoods, the contribution of returned migrants, many infected with AIDS and TB, to the burden of disease is high.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; IMMIGRANTS; MORTALITY of AIDS patients; TUBERCULOSIS mortality
- Publication
African Population Studies, 2014, Vol 28, p691
- ISSN
0850-5780
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11564/28-0-525