HIV control strategies for sex worker-client contact networks.

ABSTRACT: Controlling the spread of HIV among hidden, high-risk populations such as survival sex workers and their clients is becoming increasingly important in the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS. Several sociological and structural factors render general control strategies ineffective in these settings; instead, focused prevention, testing and treatment strategies which take into account the nature of survival sex work are required. Using a dynamic bipartite network model of sexual contacts, we investigate the optimal distribution of treatment and preventative resources among sex workers and their clients; specifically, we consider control strategies that randomly allocate antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis within each subpopulation separately. Motivated by historical data from a S

SUBMITTER: Mulberry N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6769299 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature