HIV epidemic appraisals for assisting in the design of effective prevention programmes: Shifting the paradigm back to basics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Mishra, Sharmistha ^a,b   Sgaier, Sema K ^c   Thompson, Laura H ^d   Moses, Stephen ^d   Ramesh, B M ^e   Alary, Michel ^f   Wilson, David ^g   Blanchard, James F ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e KARNATAKA HEALTH PROMOTION TRUST   (India)

^f LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION TREE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ALGORITHM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84857701217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032324     Document Type: Article

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