Vol. 4 No. 1 (2005): Mapana Journal of Sciences
Research Articles

Modelling for HIV Spread in Homosexual Population

  • T. Srivenkataramana,
  • C. Nagaraja Rao
T. Srivenkataramana
Bangalore University
C. Nagaraja Rao
Vijaya College, Bangalore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12723/mjs.6.13

Published 2005-08-22

Keywords

  • AIDS,
  • Inculbing time,
  • HIV Spread,
  • Homosexual Population,
  • mixing,
  • modeling,
  • spreaders,
  • susceptible
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Abstract

Statical modeling of HIV infection is useful to understand HIV spread mechanism, for predicting HIV and AIDS counts and for forecasting health care needs. This article:

i. stresses the need for modeling of HIV and AIDS .

ii. discusses the appropriateness of a stochastic mode for HIV transmission and

iii. examines the applicability of diffusion of news and rumors model of Taga & Isli(1959), reported in Bartholomew(1967) and presents the adapted version of this model to suit HIV spread in homosexual populations. Three different cases are considered under this model.