Quantitative Methods For Hiv Aids Research

Author : Cliburn Chan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351647121
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Methods for HIV/AIDS Research written by Cliburn Chan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantitative Methods in HIV/AIDS Research provides a comprehensive discussion of modern statistical approaches for the analysis of HIV/AIDS data. The first section focuses on statistical issues in clinical trials and epidemiology that are unique to or particularly challenging in HIV/AIDS research; the second section focuses on the analysis of laboratory data used for immune monitoring, biomarker discovery and vaccine development; the final section focuses on statistical issues in the mathematical modeling of HIV/AIDS pathogenesis, treatment and epidemiology. This book brings together a broad perspective of new quantitative methods in HIV/AIDS research, contributed by statisticians and mathematicians immersed in HIV research, many of whom are current or previous leaders of CFAR quantitative cores. It is the editors’ hope that the work will inspire more statisticians, mathematicians and computer scientists to collaborate and contribute to the interdisciplinary challenges of understanding and addressing the AIDS pandemic.

Author : Edward H. Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128223
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs written by Edward H. Kaplan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How successful are HIV prevention programs? Which HIV prevention programs are most cost effective? Which programs are worth expanding and which should be abandoned altogether? This book addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs, assessing for the first time several different quantitative methods of evaluation. The authors of the book include behavioral scientists, biologists, economists, epidemiologists, health service researchers, operations researchers, policy makers, and statisticians. They present a wide variety of perspectives on the subject, including an overview of HIV prevention programs in developing countries, economic analyses that address questions of cost effectiveness and resource allocation, case studies such as Israel’s ban on Ethiopian blood donors, and descriptions of new methodologies and problems.

Author : Elizabeth Y. Lambert
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Servic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Methods in Drug Abuse and HIV Research written by Elizabeth Y. Lambert and published by Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Servic. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Aldovini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349118885
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Techniques in HIV Research written by Anna Aldovini and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive compilation of research techniques necessary for investigating the virology, immunology and molecular biology of HIV-1. Protocols are also provided which represent state of the art approaches to a wide spectrum of HIV related issues.

Author : Ron Brookmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199748748
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS Epidemiology written by Ron Brookmeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS has appeared in more than 130 countries, and over 100,000 cases of AIDS have been reported in the U.S. alone. More and more, the public will be depending on statisticians to provide answers about the future course of this epidemic. This comprehensive work confronts the problems that are unique to AIDS research and unites them under a single conceptual framework. It focuses on methods for the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies, the natural history of AIDS and the transmission of HIV, methods for tracking and projecting the course of the epidemic, and statistical issues in therapeutic trials. The various methods of monitoring and forecasting this disease receive comprehensive treatment. These methods include back-calculation, which the authors developed; interpretation of survey data on HIV prevalence; mathematical models for HIV transmission; and approaches that combine different types of epidemiological data. Much of this material -- such as a discussion of methods for assessing safety of the blood supply, an evaluation of survey approaches, and methods to project pediatric AIDS incidence -- is not available in any other work.

Author : R Dennis Shelby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136392726
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing AIDS written by R Dennis Shelby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to create professional collaboration between HIV/AIDS researchers and community organizations for the benefit of all! This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how effective are their services; and second, can their work be improved? The absence of rigorous evaluation is a barrier to stable funding for community organizations, and the strategies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations can help overcome that barrier. The book is a guide to successful cooperative efforts between researchers and community-based organizations. The information it presents will help community-based programs acquire detailed, timely information on program effectiveness and outcomes. It also provides researchers with methods for accessing hard-to-reach or hidden HIV high-risk groups. Handy tables and figures make important data easy to access and understand. In Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations, you’ll learn about the difficult but critically important collaboration between community organizations who do frontline prevention work and university scientists who evaluate the effectiveness of that work. The book describes the community-researcher equal partner collaboration (CREPC) model for community-based collaborative research. In addition, it examines six unique efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS among high-risk populations, such as prostitutes, injection drug users, impoverished pregnant women, migrant workers, transgendered persons, and prison inmates. The case studies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations describe the frustrations of outreach workers and counselors who suddenly must help design a survey they fear will be intrusive, and the parallel problems faced by scientists who are told that their traditional measures mean little to outreach workers. Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations presents funders’ perspectives on collaborative AIDS research and examines the collaborative and funding aspects of: the CAL-PEP prevention programs for drug injectors and sex workers efforts to promote HIV prevention for migrant farm workers and evaluate those efforts’ effectiveness the ongoing collaboration between The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (University of California, San Francisco), Centerforce (a statewide nonprofit agency providing services and advocacy to prisoners and their families), and San Quentin State Prison the effort of the Los Angeles County HIV Epidemiology Program and three community-based organizations, which collaborate to provide culturally appropriate outreach and HIV education/prevention services to transgendered individuals of various ethnic origins San Francisco’s PHREDA project and the way its creators collaborated to better understand and serve high-risk women The U-Find-Out (UFO) Study, funded by the Universitywide AIDS Research Program of the State of California

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
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Download or read book Focus written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309090180
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.

Author : Anna Aldovini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333535417
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Techniques in HIV Research written by Anna Aldovini and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wai-Yuan Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814481084
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deterministic and Stochastic Models of AIDS Epidemics and HIV Infections with Intervention written by Wai-Yuan Tan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from an international team of leading researchers, the book pulls together updated research results in the area of HIV/AIDS modeling to provide readers with the latest information in the field. Topics covered include: AIDS epidemic models; vaccine models; models for HIV/cell dynamics and interactions; cellular kinetics; viral dynamics with antiviral treatments; modeling of drug resistance and quasispecies. Extensive deterministic models, statistical models, stochastic models and state space models on treating AIDS patients with anti-retroviral drugs are provided, as well as an in-depth discussion of these models. The book also contains updated reviews on mathematical models for assessing effects of AIDS vaccines, statistical methods for analyzing clinical trial data on AIDS vaccines, and overviews of models and statistical methods for assessing drug resistance of HIV to anti-retroviral drugs. Some important statistical methods specific to the intervention and prevention of HIV epidemic are also discussed. This will be a useful reference source for graduate students and researchers in biomathematics and biostatistics, as well as for HIV/AIDS epidemiologists and clinical investigators learning quantitative methods to study AIDS epidemics and HIV infection. Contents:Mathematical Models for HIV Transmission Among Injecting Drug Users (V Capasso & D Morale)A Class of Methods for HIV Contact Tracing in Cuba: Implications for Intervention and Treatment (Y-H Hsieh et al.)Dynamical Models for the Course of an HIV Infection (C Kamp)Identifiability of HIV/AIDS Models (A M Jeffrey & X Xia)A Branching Process Model of Drug Resistant HIV (H Zhou & K S Dorman)Design of Population Studies of HIV Dynamics (C Han & K Chaloner)Statistical Estimation, Inference and Hypothesis Testing of Parameters in Ordinary Differential Equations Models of HIV Dynamics (S Holte)and other papers Readership: Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, biomathematical and biostatistical researchers, HIV/AIDS epidemiologists and researchers, AIDS clinical investigators. Keywords:AIDS Epidemics;AIDS Vaccines;Antiviral Treatments;Cell Kinetics;HIV Dynamics;Viral ResistanceKey Features:Only book that provides deterministic and stochastic models of AIDS vaccines and statistical methods for analyzing clinical trial data on AIDS vaccinesOnly book on extensive, deterministic models, statistical models, stochastic models and state space models and statistical methods for HIV epidemic involving IV drug usage and HIV epidemic in homosexual populationsProvides most recent biological insights into HIV pathogenesis and HIV kinetics at the cellular level, and illustrates how to build up mathematical models based on these biological insightsOnly publication that provides in-depth analysis of HAART treatment protocols and discusses possible improvements to the HAART protocol. The book also provides connection between pharmacokinetics with treatment in HIV-infected individuals