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S A Colgate

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PubMed1989

Risk behavior-based model of the cubic growth of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the United States.

The cumulative number of cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States has grown as the cube of time rather than exponentially. We explain this by interactions involving partner choice and sexual frequency in a risk-behavior model with biased mixing. This leads to a saturation wave of infection moving from high- to low-risk groups. If this description is correct, then the decreasing growth rate of AIDS cases is not due to behavior changes; rather it is due to the intrinsic epidemiology of the disease.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1988

The need for national HIV databases.

Researchers and public health officials involved in surveying and forecasting the course of the HIV epidemic require complete and unfiltered information from many sources. Governments should respond by establishing national HIV databases.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗