Assessment of the population-level effectiveness of the Avahan HIV-prevention programme in South India: a preplanned, causal-pathway-based modelling analysis.

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Published in Lancet Glob Health on September 30, 2013

Authors

Michael Pickles1, Marie-Claude Boily2, Peter Vickerman3, Catherine M Lowndes4, Stephen Moses5, James F Blanchard6, Kathleen N Deering7, Janet Bradley8, Banadakoppa M Ramesh9, Reynold Washington10, Rajatashuvra Adhikary11, Mandar Mainkar12, Ramesh S Paranjape12, Michel Alary13

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK; Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
2: School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. Electronic address: mc.boily@imperial.ac.uk.
3: Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
4: Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Public Health England, London, UK.
5: Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore, India.
6: Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
7: School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
8: CHARME-India Project, Bangalore, India; Unité de Recherche en Santé des Populations, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec, Département de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, QC, Canada.
9: Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore, India.
10: Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; St John's Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India.
11: FHI 360, Washington, DC, USA.
12: National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India.
13: Unité de Recherche en Santé des Populations, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec, Département de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, QC, Canada; Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Québec City, QC, Canada.

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