An agent-based model of binge drinking, inequitable gender norms and their contribution to HIV transmission, with application to South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Binge drinking, inequitable gender norms and sexual risk behaviour are closely interlinked. This study aims to model the potential effect of alcohol counselling interventions (in men and women) and gender-transformative interventions (in men) as strategies to reduce HIV transmission.

Methods

We developed an agent-based model of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, allowing for effects of binge drinking on sexual risk behaviour, and effects of inequitable gender norms (in men) on sexual risk behaviour and binge drinking. The model was applied to South Africa and was calibrated using data from randomized controlled trials of alcohol counselling interventions (n = 9) and gender-transformative interventions (n = 4) in sub-Saharan Africa. The model was also c

SUBMITTER: Johnson LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10385913 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature