Assessment of the population-level effectiveness of the Avahan HIV-prevention programme in South India: a preplanned, causal-pathway-based modelling analysis

• Main Authors: Michael Pickles, PhD (Author), Marie-Claude Boily, PhD (Author), Peter Vickerman, DPhil (Author), Catherine M Lowndes, PhD (Author), Prof. Stephen Moses, MD (Author), Prof. James F Blanchard, MD (Author), Kathleen N Deering, PhD (Author), Janet Bradley, MA (Author), Banadakoppa M Ramesh, PhD (Author), Reynold Washington, MD (Author), Rajatashuvra Adhikary, PhD (Author), Mandar Mainkar, PhD (Author), Ramesh S Paranjape, PhD (Author), Prof. Michel Alary, MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Avahan, the India AIDS initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was a large-scale, targeted HIV prevention intervention. We aimed to assess its overall effectiveness by estimating the number and proportion of HIV infections averted across Avahan districts, following the cau...