Open AccessYearly number of patients diagnosed with primary HIV-1 infection in France estimated by a capture–recapture approach
Author(s) -
Laurence Lièvre,
Christiane Deveau,
Juliette Gerbe,
P. Enel,
Laurent Tran,
Nathalie De Castro,
Dominique Costagliola,
Laurence Meyer
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.195
H-Index - 216
eISSN - 1473-5571
pISSN - 0269-9370
DOI - 10.1097/qad.0b013e32801104b0
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , mark and recapture , cohort , pediatrics , demography , virology , population , environmental health , sociology
We used a two-source capture-recapture method to estimate the number of patients diagnosed at the time of primary HIV infection in France between 1999 and 2002. The sources were the French PRIMO cohort and the French Hospital Database on HIV. The estimated number of patients was 325 per year, which represents only 5% (approximately 6000 cases) of all new cases diagnosed each year and only 8% of all new infections (approximately 4000 cases).