ArticleAIDS and behavior2011
Concurrent sexual partnerships and primary HIV infection: a critical interaction.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Review of Network Models for HIV Spread.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Pooled it
- Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2011Pooled it
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- Predictors of perceived male partner concurrency among women at risk for HIV and STI acquisition in Durban, South Africa.AIDS research and therapy · 2016Trial
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- Multilevel analysis of determinants of polygyny among married men in Ethiopia.BMC public health · 2021Article
- HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemic Potential of Networks of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Two Cities.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Partnership dynamics in mathematical models and implications for representation of sexually transmitted infections: a review.Annals of epidemiology · 2021Review
- Concurrency measures in the era of temporal network epidemiology: a review.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Review
- Assessment of Bias in Estimates of Sexual Network Degree using Prospective Cohort Data.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020Article
- Characterizing Men Who Have Sex with Transgender Women in Lima, Peru: Sexual Behavior and Partnership Profiles.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
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- Trends in Number and Composition of Sex Partners Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance, 2008-2014.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Article
- Coital Frequency and Male Concurrent Partnerships During Pregnancy and Postpartum in Agbogbloshie, Ghana.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
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Abstract
The combination of long-term concurrent sexual partnerships and high infectiousness early in HIV infection has been suggested as a key driver of the extensive spread of HIV in general populations in sub-Saharan Africa, but this has never been scientifically investigated. We use a mathematical model to simulate HIV spreading on sexual networks with different amounts of concurrency. The models show that if HIV infectiousness is constant over the duration of infection, the amount of concurrency has much less influence on HIV spread compared to when infectiousness varies over three stages of infection with high infectiousness in the first months. The proportion of transmissions during primary infection is sensitive to the amount of concurrency and, in this model, is estimated to be between 16 and 28% in spreading epidemics with increasing concurrency. The sensitivity of epidemic spread to the amount of concurrency is greater than predicted by models that do not include primary HIV infection.
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