Salal Humair
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Global Health and Population
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
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Institutional Affiliations: Harvard University and School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| November 2009 | A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment
with Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom: w15517
Despite recent international efforts to increase antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage, it is estimated that more than 5 million people who need ART in developing countries do not receive such treatment. Shortages of human resources to treat HIV/AIDS (HRHA) are one of the main constraints to scaling up ART. We develop a discrete-time Markovian model to project the numbers of HRHA required to achieve universal ART coverage, taking into account the positive feedback from HRHA numbers to future HRHA need. Feedback occurs because ART is effective in prolonging the lives of HIV-positive people who need treatment, so that an increase in the number of people receiving treatment leads to an increase in the number of people needing it in future periods. We investigate the steady-state behavior ... |
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