Assessing the utility of the tipping point ratio to monitor HIV treatment programmes in the era of universal access to ART

Background: The epidemiological tipping point ratio (TPR) has been suggested as a useful indicator to monitor the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes and determine when scale-up is sufficient to control the epidemic. TPR has been defined as the ratio of yearly number of new HIV inf...

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Main Authors: Simon de Montigny, Marie-Claude Boily, Benoît R. Mâsse, Kate M. Mitchell, Dobromir T. Dimitrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2018-01-01
Series:Infectious Disease Modelling
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042717300374