Concurrency can drive an HIV epidemic by moving R0 across the epidemic threshold

AIDS

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1097-1103

  Leung, Ka Yin ^a,b   Kretzschmar, Mirjam ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concurrent partnerships; HIV; Mathematical model; R0; Sub saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIFESPAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONOGAMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84988691094     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000676     Document Type: Article

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