Evaluating the Impact of Test-and-Treat on the HIV Epidemic among MSM in China Using a Mathematical Model.

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Published in PLoS One on June 03, 2015

Authors

Sitong Luo1, Litao Han2, Hongyan Lu3, Zhi Dou4, Qian Tao2, Kaveh Khoshnood5, Zunyou Wu4, Jie Xu4

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Prevention Intervention, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
2: School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
3: Institute for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
4: Division of Prevention Intervention, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
5: Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.

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