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The impact of HCV therapy in a high HIV-HCV prevalence population: A modeling study on people who inject drugs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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BACKGROUND: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) coinfection is a major global health problem especially among people who inject drugs (PWID), with significant clinical implications. Mathematical models have been used to great effect to shape HIV care, but few have been proposed for HIV/HCV. METHODS: We constructed a deterministic compartmental ODE model that incorporated layers for HIV disease progression, HCV disease progression and PWID demography. Antiretroviral ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 5
- Article number:
- e0177195
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-04-23
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- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Source identifiers:
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695867
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:695867
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- pubs:695867
- Deposit date:
- 2017-08-01
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- Birger et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2017 Birger et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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