Identifying Major Drivers of Incident HIV Infection Using Recent Infection Testing Algorithms (RITAs) to Precisely Inform Targeted Prevention

With an estimated 1.7 million people newly diagnosed of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) worldwide in 2019, controlling the HIV epidemic is still a global public health priority (UNAIDS, 2019). An accurate understanding of the epidemic is critical to implementing targeted public health interventions effectively. Incident HIV infection, as a key factor of the HIV epidemic, is crucial for describing concurrent transmission trends. Incident HIV infection has numerous applications, such as monitoring the incidence at national or regional levels, evaluating the effectiveness of intervention measures, and identifying hot-spot populations and areas (Balaji et al., 2018; Medland et al., 2018; Ratmann et al., 2020; Yang et al., 2015).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - September 24, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Qiyu Zhu, Yikui Wang, Jing Liu, Xing Duan, Meibin Chen, Jin Yang, Tao Yang, Shijiang Yang, Peng Guan, Yan Jiang, Song Duan, Jibao Wang, Cong Jin Source Type: research