Comments:African HIV prevalence may also be physiological
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Logical fallacy: correlation is not causation. Just because 2 things happen to occur at the same time (lack of Duffy gene; prevalence of HIV) it does not mean that one causes the other--especially since "the study [...] does not identify why the absence of the chemokine receptor in red blood cells increases susceptibility to HIV".