A Joint Spatial Conditional Auto-Regressive Model for Estimating HIV Prevalence Rates Among Key Populations

09/02/2020
by   Zhou Lan, et al.
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Ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic is among the Sustainable Development Goals for the next decade. In order to overcome the gap between the need for care and the available resources, better understanding of HIV epidemics is needed to guide policy decisions, especially for key populations that are at higher risk for HIV infection. Accurate HIV epidemic estimates for key populations have been difficult to obtain because their HIV surveillance data is very limited. In this paper, we propose a so-called joint spatial conditional auto-regressive model for estimating HIV prevalence rates among key populations. Our model borrows information from both neighboring locations and dependent populations. As illustrated in the real data analysis, it provides more accurate estimates than independently fitting the sub-epidemic for each key population. In addition, we provide a study to reveal the conditions that our proposal gives a better prediction. The study combines both theoretical investigation and numerical study, revealing strength and limitations of our proposal.

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