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Concentrated Epidemic

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Concentrated Epidemic
An epidemic in which HIV or another pathogen represents > 5% in any sub-population at higher risk of infection—e.g., drug injectors, sex workers, homosexual men. Surveillance systems monitor infection in those groups and focus on behavioural links between members of those groups and the general population
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