Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

S. Mushayabasa

Publications

• Research Article
  Bleaching and Withdrawal: A Modeling Approach for Assessing the Role of Bleaching and Individual Withdrawal on Controlling HIV among Intravenous Drug Users
  Author(s): S. MushayabasaS. Mushayabasa
  
  Bleaching of syringes has been advocated to prevent HIV transmission among injection drug users (IDUs). In this paper, a simple mathematical model is developed to assess the role of bleaching and individual withdrawal on controlling HIV among intravenous drug users. A threshold dimensionless quantity known as the reproductive number ( R 0 ) has been derived and qualitatively used to assess the impact bleaching and individual withdrawal of symptomatic HIV carriers (from drug injection misuse activity) on controlling HIV epidemic among intravenous drug users. Latin Hypercube Sampling has been used to assess the amount and type of change inherent in the model as captured by the terms that define the ( R 0 ). At best this study suggests that bleaching is more effective on controlling HIV among intravenous drug users compared to withdrawal of symptomatic.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113.S7-001

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