Large benefits to youth-focused HIV treatment-as-prevention efforts in generalized heterosexual populations: An agent-based simulation model.

Predominantly heterosexual HIV-1 epidemics like those in sub-Saharan Africa continue to have high HIV incidence in young people. We used a stochastic, agent-based model for age-disparate networks to test the hypothesis that focusing uptake and retention of ART among youth could enhance the efficienc...

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Main Authors: John E Mittler, James T Murphy, Sarah E Stansfield, Kathryn Peebles, Geoffrey S Gottlieb, Neil F Abernethy, Molly C Reid, Steven M Goodreau, Joshua T Herbeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007561