What is the achievable effectiveness of the India AIDS Initiative intervention among female sex workers under target coverage? Model projections from southern India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The India AIDS Initiative (Avahan) prevention programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to reduce HIV prevalence in high risk groups such as female and male sex workers and their clients, to limit HIV transmission in the general population.

Objectives

To assess the potential effectiveness of the Avahan intervention at the level of coverage targeted, in different epidemiological settings in India.

Methods

A deterministic compartmental model of the transmission dynamics of HIV and two sexually transmitted infections, and sensitivity analysis techniques, were used, in combination with available behavioural and epidemiological data from Mysore and Bagalkot districts in the Indian state of Karnataka, to evaluate the syndromic sexually transm

SUBMITTER: Williams JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2563856 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature