Migrant Worker Hypothesis
Emergence as a result of population movement in search of labor
Urbanization created a population that amplified HIV infection
- female sex workers
- young male professionals
- due to British policies & urbanization of 1950-60�s
Return migration brought HIV to villages
- due to economic collapse during Amin dictatorship
Study of Migration and HIV Infection (Nunn, 1995)
- 5.5% Prevalence among those who had not moved
- 8.2% - moved within a village
- 12.4% - moved to neighboring village
- 16.3% - those joining cohort