Epidemiology of AIDS--statistical analyses.

Key Facts about Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Children Worldwide

Unfortunately, we do not know how many perinatally (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) HIV-infected pepole are living in contries today, while knowing these informations is necessary. UNAIDS reports that there are 3.4 million children under 15 years of age with HIV and 2 million adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age. Although the vast majority of children were perinatally infected, older childr...

AIDS Epidemiology

Thompson’s AIDS epidemic model, which is formulated in his article “AIDS: The Mismanagement of an Epidemic,” published in Great Britain, 1989, does not reflect female infective population that has been growing. While the majority of AIDS patients were assumed to be male homosexuals, Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of infected females through heterosexual co...

Statistical analyses

To account for the non-independence of individual observations within a year, and the large differences in sample size among groups, analyses were, where possible, performed on yearly means for the relevant sub-group. When appropriate, yearly means were squareroot or arc-sine transformed before analysis. All presented means and parameter estimates are back-transformed. All statistical analyses ...

trend of aids in iran: descriptive epidemiology

background: this study was conducted to describe the trend of the number of aids cases died in iran, during 1987-2000 and to determine some important epidemiological factors related to the syndrome. methods: using a questionnaire form of interview epidemiological information was collected. cases were recorded in the center of disease control of iran (cdci). all records included: year of diagnos...

Statistical Analyses ́ Design