In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), naturally occurring social networks may be
particularly vital to health outcomes as extended webs of social ties often are the principal …

The study of social networks is increasingly central to health research for medical
sociologists and scholars in other fields. Here, we review the innovations in theory …

Safety commitment is a key factor determining the stability of miners' safe behavior. This
study explored safety commitments from the perspective of personnel traits and social …

Patterns of age differences between sexual partners–“age-mixing”–may partially explain the
magnitude of HIV epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidence of age-disparity as a …

Epidemic modeling suggests that a major scale-up in HIV treatment could have a dramatic
impact on HIV incidence. This has led both researchers and policymakers to set a goal of an …

Background Demographic and sociobehavioral factors are strong drivers of HIV infection
rates in sub-Saharan Africa. These factors are often studied in qualitative research but …

Background There is a need for valid approaches to measure sexual interactions to assess
the impact of behavioural interventions and to predict the impact of behaviour changes …

(1) Background: Calibration of Simpact Cyan can help to improve estimates related to the
transmission dynamics of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Age-mixing patterns in …

Empirical estimates of the association between concurrent partnerships (CP) and HIV risk
are affected by non-sampling errors in survey data on CPs, eg, because respondents …

Survey participants often misreport their sensitive behaviors (eg., smoking, drinking, having
sex) during interviews. Several studies have suggested that asking respondents to report the …