Modeling secondary level of HIV contact tracing: Its impact on HIV intervention in Cuba

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hsieh, Ying Hen ^a   Wang, Yun Shih ^b   de Arazoza, Hector ^c   Lounes, Rachid ^d  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CUBA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCREENING TEST; SIMULATION; VIRUS DETECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT TRACING; CUBA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77954050127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-194     Document Type: Article

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