Modeling an integrated HIV prevention and care continuum to achieve the Ending the HIV Epidemic goals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We sought to evaluate, which combinations of HIV prevention and care activities would have the greatest impact towards reaching the US Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) plan goals of HIV incidence reduction.

Design

A stochastic network-based HIV transmission model for men who have sex with men (MSM), calibrated to surveillance estimates in the Atlanta area, a focal EHE jurisdiction.

Methods

Model scenarios varied HIV screening rates under different assumptions of how HIV-negative MSM would be linked to PrEP initiation, and rates of HIV care linkage and retention for those screening positive.

Results

A ten-fold relative increase in HIV screening rates (to approximately biannual screening for black and Hispanic MSM and quarterly for white MSM) would lead to

SUBMITTER: Jenness SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7606461 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature