Combinations of interventions to achieve a national HIV incidence reduction goal: insights from an agent-based model.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Analyzing HIV care service targets for achieving a national goal of a 25% reduction in annual HIV incidence and evaluating the use of annual HIV diagnoses to measure progress in incidence reduction.

Design

Because there are considerable interactions among HIV care services, we model the dynamics of 'combinations' of increases in HIV care continuum targets to identify those that would achieve 25% reductions in annual incidence and diagnoses.

Methods

We used Progression and Transmission of HIV/AIDS 2.0, an agent-based dynamic stochastic simulation of HIV in the United States.

Results

A 25% reduction in annual incidence could be achieved by multiple alternative combinations of percentages of persons with diagnosed infection and persons with viral suppres

SUBMITTER: Gopalappa C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5680124 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature