tx_msm: Treatment Module

In statnet/PrEP-for-ASMM-and-adult-MSM: Network-Based Epidemic Modeling of HIV Transmission among MSM and ASMM populations

Description

Module function for anti-retroviral treatment initiation and adherence over time.

Usage

tx_msm(dat, at)

Arguments

dat	Master data list object of class dat containing networks, individual-level attributes, and summary statistics.
at	Current time step.

Details

Persons enter into the simulation with one of four ART "patterns": never tested, tested but never treated, treated and achieving partial HIV viral suppression, or treated with full viral suppression (these types are stored as individual-level attributes in tt.traj). This module initiates ART for treatment naive persons in the latter two types, and then cycles them on and off treatment conditional on empirical race-specific adherence rates. ART initiation, non-adherence, and restarting are all stochastically simulated based on binomial statistical models.

Value

This function returns the dat object with updated tx.status, tx.init.time, cum.time.on.tx, cum.time.off.tx attributes.

statnet/PrEP-for-ASMM-and-adult-MSM documentation built on June 22, 2019, 12:45 a.m.