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Dual infection with HIV-1 and HIV-2, which is not uncommon in West Africa, has important implications for transmission, progression, and antiretroviral therapy. Few studies have examined HIV viral dynamics in this setting. We compared HIV-1 and HIV-2 viral loads from 65 dually i…

Through ethnography, this dissertation chronicles how a West African variant of HIV, known as HIV-2, emerged as a knowable entity. It examines how a nation like Senegal, which exists at the margins of capitalism and the periphery of the biomedical knowledge empire, has come to o…

Since 1985 the Kanki laboratory has maintained a prospective cohort of registered female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal that has supported multi-disciplinary research on both HIV-1 and HIV-2. Data from this cohort has demonstrated that HIV-2 is significantly less pathogenic than …