"Assessment of HIV Testing Rates among HIV Infected Individuals using Incidence Data on HIV and AIDS Diagnoses."

According to the author's abstract of an article published in Statistics in Medicine, "This paper considers estimation of the rate of HIV diagnosis in a population of HIV positive individuals. A number of previous papers have studied the situation where time of first positive HIV test is available for AIDS cases, and possibly for individuals who have not yet developed AIDS. In this context, AIDS diagnoses are linked to prior HIV diagnoses. The present paper focuses on the case where AIDS incidence data, and data on new HIV diagnoses, are unlinked. Although there is less information available when there is no linking of AIDS diagnoses and HIV tests, it is shown that a useful assessment...

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