HIV Care Prioritization Using Phylogenetic Branch Length.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The structure of the HIV transmission networks can be dictated by just a few individuals. Public health intervention, such as ensuring people living with HIV adhere to antiretroviral therapy and remain virally suppressed, can help control the spread of the virus. However, such intervention requires using limited public health resource allocations. Determining which individuals are most at risk of transmitting HIV could allow public health officials to focus their limited resources on these individuals.

Setting

Molecular epidemiology can help prioritize people living with HIV by patterns of transmission inferred from their sampled viral sequences. Such prioritization has been previously suggested and performed by monitoring cluster growth. In this article, we intro

SUBMITTER: Moshiri N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7933099 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature