Human Herpesvirus 8 Seropositivity in Rural Uganda: Maturation of Sero-epidemiological Studies

herpesvirus) is a necessary but in-sufficient cause of KS [1]. KS is a major public health problem in Africa, where it was endemic before the human immu-nodeficiency virus (HIV) infection epi-demic [2], accounting for up to 18 % of cancers in adults in some regions, in-cluding parts of Uganda, the Congo, and Rwanda [3]. The disease was known to occur in children [4], intuitively sug-gesting that HHV8 could be transmitted during childhood. Currently, KS is the most common cancer in men and the second most common cancer in women and children in Uganda, highlighting th