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ArticleEpidemics2017

Gender asymmetry in concurrent partnerships and HIV prevalence.

Ka Yin Leung, Kimberly A Powers, Mirjam Kretzschmar

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Article in Epidemics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ka Yin LeungUtrecht University, PO Box 80010, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands; University Medical Center Utrecht, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands. Electronic address: kayin.leung@math.su.se.
Kimberly A PowersThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2105D McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Campus Box 7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA. Electronic address: powersk@email.unc.edu.
Mirjam KretzschmarUniversity Medical Center Utrecht, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands; National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Electronic address: m.e.e.kretzschmar@umcutrecht.nl.
University Medical Center Utrecht · NLUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

North Carolina Translational & Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS)KL2TR001109 · NCATS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BUSE, JOHN BERNARD, CAREY, TIMOTHY S · 2013 to 2017
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NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR001109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The structure of the sexual network of a population plays an essential role in the transmission of HIV. Concurrent partnerships, i.e. partnerships that overlap in time, are important in determining this network structure. Men and women may differ in their concurrent behavior, e.g. in the case of polygyny where women are monogamous while men may have concurrent partnerships. Polygyny has been shown empirically to be negatively associated with HIV prevalence, but the epidemiological impacts of other forms of gender-asymmetric concurrency have not been formally explored. Here we investigate how gender asymmetry in concurrency, including polygyny, can affect the disease dynamics. We use a model for a dynamic network where individuals may have concurrent partners. The maximum possible number of simultaneous partnerships can differ for men and women, e.g. in the case of polygyny. We control for mean partnership duration, mean lifetime number of partners, mean degree, and sexually active lifespan. We assess the effects of gender asymmetry in concurrency on two epidemic phase quantities (R

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Sexual PartnersAdolescentAdultAfrica South of the SaharaEpidemicsFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansMaleMarriageMiddle AgedPrevalenceSex DistributionYoung AdultConcurrencyGender asymmetryHIV prevalenceMathematical modelPolygyny

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PMID28169133
PMCPMC5474364
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