Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in Uganda
The increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Africa over the past twenty-five years continues to erode the continent's health care and overall welfare. There have beenvarious responses to the pandemic, led by Uganda, which has had the greatestsuccess in combating the disease. Part of Uganda's...
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| description | The increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Africa over the past twenty-five years continues to erode the continent's health care and overall welfare. There have beenvarious responses to the pandemic, led by Uganda, which has had the greatestsuccess in combating the disease. Part of Uganda's success has been attributed toa formalized information, education, and communication (IEC) strategy, loweringestimated HIV/AIDS infection rates from 18.5% in 1995 to 4.1% in 2003. Weformulate a model to investigate the effects of information and education campaignson the HIV epidemic in Uganda. These campaigns affect people's behavior andcan divide the susceptibles class into subclasses with different infectivity rates.Our model is a system of ordinary differential equations and we use data about theepidemics and the number of organizations involved in the campaigns to estimatethe model parameters. We compare our model with three types of susceptibles toa standard SIR model. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e9897c0ccac34787b83572ce095fbba52025-01-24T01:58:42ZengAIMS PressMathematical Biosciences and Engineering1551-00182008-09-015475777010.3934/mbe.2008.5.757Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in UgandaHem Joshi0Suzanne Lenhart1Kendra Albright2Kevin Gipson3Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 45207-4441Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 45207-4441Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 45207-4441Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 45207-4441The increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Africa over the past twenty-five years continues to erode the continent's health care and overall welfare. There have beenvarious responses to the pandemic, led by Uganda, which has had the greatestsuccess in combating the disease. Part of Uganda's success has been attributed toa formalized information, education, and communication (IEC) strategy, loweringestimated HIV/AIDS infection rates from 18.5% in 1995 to 4.1% in 2003. Weformulate a model to investigate the effects of information and education campaignson the HIV epidemic in Uganda. These campaigns affect people's behavior andcan divide the susceptibles class into subclasses with different infectivity rates.Our model is a system of ordinary differential equations and we use data about theepidemics and the number of organizations involved in the campaigns to estimatethe model parameters. We compare our model with three types of susceptibles toa standard SIR model.https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/mbe.2008.5.757differential equationsepidemic modelhiv education campaign |
| spellingShingle | Hem Joshi Suzanne Lenhart Kendra Albright Kevin Gipson Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in Uganda Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering differential equations epidemic model hiv education campaign |
| title | Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in Uganda |
| title_full | Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in Uganda |
| title_short | Modeling the effect of information campaigns on the HIV epidemic in Uganda |
| title_sort | modeling the effect of information campaigns on the hiv epidemic in uganda |
| topic | differential equations epidemic model hiv education campaign |
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