Looking upstream to prevent HIV transmission: Can interventions with sex workers alter the course of HIV epidemics in Africa as they did in Asia?

AIDS

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 891-899

  Steen, Richard ^a,b   Hontelez, Jan A C ^a,d   Veraart, Andra ^c   White, Richard G ^e   De Vlas, Sake J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Generalized HIV epidemic; HIV; Modelling; Sex work

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDOM USE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897981446     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000176     Document Type: Article

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