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HIV research output in African Countries between 1986–2020

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  • Mukhtar A Ijaiya
  • Adebanjo Olowu
  • Habibat A Oguntade
  • Seun Anjorin
  • Olalekan A Uthman

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HIV literature has grown exponentially since it was named the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Bibliometric analysis is a practical approach for quantitatively and qualitatively assessing scientific research. This work aims to describe HIV research output in Africa by country from 1986 until 2020. We conducted a search of the PubMed database in June 2021 for a 35-year period spanning 1986 to 2020. We comparatively weighed for countries’ populations, gross domestic product (GDP), and the number of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) by calculating the ratio of the number of publications from each country. We used Poisson regression models to explore the trends in countries’ HIV research output over the study period. The Pearson correlation analysis assessed the association between research output, population size, GDP, and the number of PLHIV.A total of 83,527 articles from African countries on HIV indexed in PubMed were included for analysis. Republic of South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria account for 54% of the total indexed publications with 33.2% (26,907); 8.4% (7,045); 7.3% (6,118); and 5.1% (4,254), respectively. Africa’s proportion of the world’s total HIV publications increased from 5.1% in 1986 to 31.3% in 2020. There was a strong positive and statistically significant correlation between the total indexed HIV publications and countries’ GDP (r = 0.59, P

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  • Mukhtar A Ijaiya & Adebanjo Olowu & Habibat A Oguntade & Seun Anjorin & Olalekan A Uthman, 2023. "HIV research output in African Countries between 1986–2020," PLOS Global Public Health, Public Library of Science, vol. 3(6), pages 1-19, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pgph00:0000544
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000544
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