Demographic research, 2007-02, Vol.16, p.121-140
2007
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Inconsistencies in age profiles of HIV prevalence: A dynamic model applied to Zambia
- Ist Teil von
- Demographic research, 2007-02, Vol.16, p.121-140
- Ort / Verlag
- Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2007
- Link zum Volltext
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- EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- A two-sex compartmental model of the dynamics of HIV infection was developed and applied to the case of Zambia. Parameters included age specific rates of fertility, mortality, entry into sexual life, number of partners and age of partners. They were all derived from empirical data from Demographic and Health Surveys, and applied by single year of age. The model was unable to fit age and sex patterns of infection observed in 2001. Current knowledge of HIV transmission does not allow fitting the dynamics of HIV epidemics. Further research is needed to understand the dynamics of HIV heterosexual epidemics in Africa.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1435-9871eISSN: 1435-9871DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2007.16.5Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_61684473
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Age, Age Differences, AIDS, Blood banks, Blood transfusions, Children & youth, Demographics, Demography, Epidemics, Females, Heterosexual transmission, Heterosexuality, HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus, Industrialized nations, Infections, Methodological Problems, Mortality, Mothers, Parametric models, Polls & surveys, Research Article, Risk factors, Sexual behavior, Sexually transmitted diseases, STD, Women, Young adults, Zambia