Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

A substantial proportion of HIV-infected individuals do not present for HIV testing until late in
infection; these individuals are often ill, have a high mortality risk, and are less likely to …

State-transition modeling (STM) is an intuitive, flexible, and transparent approach of
computer-based decision-analytic modeling, including both Markov model cohort simulation …

These recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing are intended for all
health-care providers in the public and private sectors, including those working in hospital …

Health care costs in the United States are increasing unsustainably, and further efforts to
control costs are inevitable and essential. Efforts to control expenditures should focus on the …

Background: A recent randomized, controlled trial showed that daily oral preexposure
chemoprophylaxis (PrEP) was effective for HIV prevention in men who have sex with men …

Background The Botswana government recently implemented a policy of routine or “opt-out”
HIV testing in response to the high prevalence of HIV infection, estimated at 37% of adults …

Recent advances in the fields of genetics, molecular biology, behavioral
neuropharmacology, and brain imaging have dramatically changed our understanding of …

Improved methods for targeting HIV testing among patients most likely to be infected are
required; HIDES I aimed to define the methodology of a European wide study of HIV …

ContextSince the early 1980s, the black-white gap in life expectancy at birth increased
sharply and subsequently declined, but the causes of these changes have not been …