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Condom effectiveness in reducing heterosexual HIV transmission

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2002
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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6 news outlets
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1 blog
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2 policy sources
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65 X users
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10 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Condom effectiveness in reducing heterosexual HIV transmission
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2002
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd003255
Pubmed ID
Authors

Susan C Weller, Karen Davis-Beaty

Abstract

The amount of protection that condoms provide for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections is unknown. Cohort studies of sexually active HIV serodiscordant couples with follow-up of the seronegative partner, provide a situation in which a seronegative partner has known exposure to the disease and disease incidence can be estimated. When some individuals use condoms and some do not, namely some individuals use condoms 100% of the time and some never use (0%) condoms, condom effectiveness can be estimated by comparing the two incidence rates. Condom effectiveness is the proportionate reduction in disease due to the use of condoms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Botswana 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
El Salvador 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 563 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 138 24%
Researcher 69 12%
Student > Bachelor 57 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 9%
Student > Postgraduate 35 6%
Other 106 18%
Unknown 121 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 186 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 40 7%
Social Sciences 38 7%
Psychology 24 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 3%
Other 108 19%
Unknown 164 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 114. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 February 2024.
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#372,724
of 25,564,614 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#641
of 13,156 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#372
of 133,550 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2
of 37 outputs
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