Open AccessNetwork Viral Load: A Critical Metric for HIV Elimination
Author(s) -
Britt Skaathun,
Aditya Khanna,
Ethan Morgan,
Samuel R. Friedman,
John A. Schneider
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000001584
Subject(s) - viral load , confidence interval , men who have sex with men , odds ratio , viremia , medicine , immunology , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , syphilis , sociology
Associations have been observed between an aggregate viral load measure, the community viral load, and new HIV diagnoses. The community viral load aggregates viral loads within chosen geographic areas, restricting inferences about HIV acquisition risk to these areas. We develop a more precise metric, the network viral load (NVL), to measure the composite viral load within a risk network of a HIV-negative individual.