Measuring Population Transmission Potential for HIV: An Alternative Metric of Transmission Risk in Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the US

Authors

Colleen F. Kelley, Emory UniversityFollow
Eli S. Rosenberg, Emory University
Brandon M. O'Hara, Emory University
Paula M. Frew, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Travis Sanchez, Emory University
John L. Peterson, Georga State University
Carlos del Rio, Emory University
Patrick S. Sullivan, Emory University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-28-2012

Publication Title

PLoS ONE

Publisher

Public Library of Science

Volume

7

Issue

12

First page number:

1

Last page number:

8

Abstract

Background Various metrics for HIV burden and treatment success [e.g. HIV prevalence, community viral load (CVL), population viral load (PVL), percent of HIV-positive persons with undetectable viral load] have important public health limitations for understanding disparities. Methods and Findings Using data from an ongoing HIV incidence cohort of black and white men who have sex with men (MSM), we propose a new metric to measure the prevalence of those at risk of transmitting HIV and illustrate its value. …See full text for complete abstract.

Disciplines

Immunology and Infectious Disease | Virology

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Run Time

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Language

English

Creative Commons License

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Repository Citation

Kelley, C. F., Rosenberg, E. S., O'Hara, B. M., Frew, P. M., Sanchez, T., Peterson, J. L., del Rio, C., Sullivan, P. S. (2012). Measuring Population Transmission Potential for HIV: An Alternative Metric of Transmission Risk in Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the US. PLoS ONE, 7(12), 1-8. Public Library of Science.
http://dx.doi.org/10.13741/journal.pone.0053284