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The effect of structural behavior change on the spread of HIV in a one-sex population
1Centro Operativo AIDS, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy.
Abstract:
Within a preferred mixing type of model for the spread of HIV in a one-sex population, the effects of structural behavior change, that is movements of individuals from one activity class to another, with accompanying changes of contact pattern are investigated. It is concluded that such behavior change makes it more difficult for an epidemic to arise if the contact pattern is of the restricted type, whereas the effect is indeterminate in the proportional mixing case. Some of the problems in analyzing sexual activity data from a population within which this behavior change mechanism is at work are also commented upon.
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