Measuring and modelling concurrency

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sawers, Larry ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrency; HIV; Multiple concurrent partners; Sexual network models; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHLAMYDIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL CARE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; SAFE SEX; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SERIAL MONOGAMY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; CONCURRENCY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIPLE CONCURRENT PARTNERS; SEXUAL NETWORK MODELS; STATISTICS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONCURRENCY; HIV; MULTIPLE CONCURRENT PARTNERS; SEXUAL NETWORK MODELS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879155649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.16.1.17431     Document Type: Review

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