Effects of patient load and travel distance on HIV transmission in rural China: Implications for treatment as prevention
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Smith, M. Kumi
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
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Miller, William C.
- Other Affiliation: Ohio State University College of Public Health
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Liu, Huixin
- Other Affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology; Peking University People's Hospital
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Ning, Chuanyi
- Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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He, Wensheng
- Other Affiliation: Zhumadian City Centers for Disease Control
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Cohen, Myron S.
- Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Wang, Ning
- Other Affiliation: National Centre for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention; China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Abstract
- Sustained viral suppression through ART reduces sexual HIV transmission risk, but may require routine access to reliable and effective medical care which may be difficult to obtain in resource constrained areas. We investigated the roles of patient load and travel distance to HIV care clinic on transmission risk in HIV serodiscordant couples in Henan Province, China.
- Date of publication
- 2017
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- Publisher DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177976
- PMCID: PMC5451043
- PMID: 28562661
- Onescience id: 1edd463a36daf0c3003f9120a493663752f95204
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- Article
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- Journal title
- PloS One
- Journal volume
- 12
- Journal issue
- 5
- Page start
- e0177976
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- English
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
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