Model-based evaluation of single-round mass treatment of sexually transmitted diseases for HIV control in a rural African population

AIDS

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 573-593

  Korenromp, Eline L ^a,e   Van Vliet, Carina ^a   Grosskurth, Heiner ^b,c   Gavyole, Awene ^b   Van Der Ploeg, Catharina P B ^a   Fransen, Lieve ^d   Hayes, Richard J ^c   Habbema, J Dik F ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b African Medical and Research Foundation Mwanza   (Tanzania)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Evaluation of program effectiveness; HIV sexually transmitted diseases prevention; Mass treatment; Simulation models; Syndromic treatment; Treatment of sexually transmitted diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; ULCUS MOLLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS;

EID: 0034033710     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200003310-00013     Document Type: Article

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