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HIV/AIDS
New HIV/AIDS study findings recently were published by researchers at University of Bristol
June 24th, 2008
According to a study from Bristol, the United Kingdom, "Estimates of the number of prevalent human immunodeficiency virus infections are used in U.K. and Wales to monitor development of the human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immune deficiency syndrome epidemic and for planning purposes. The population is split into risk groups, and estimates of risk group size and of risk group prevalence and diagnosis rates are combined to derive estimates of the number of undiagnosed infections and of the overall number of infected individuals." "In traditional approaches, each risk group size, prevalence or diagnosis rate parameter must be informed by just one summary statistic....
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-24)
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