Effectiveness of a no-sex or safe-sex month in reducing HIV transmission

OBJECTIVE: To build a deterministic compartmental model for exploring the effects on the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) of a population abstaining from sex or practising only "safe" sex for one month each year. METHODS: A model of HIV transmission was built to simulate...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Armbruster, Aaron M Lucas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2012-07-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862012000700010&lng=en&tlng=en