Expanded antiretroviral treatment, sexual networks, and condom use: Treatment as prevention unlikely to succeed without partner reduction among men who have sex with men in China

Jie Lou; Peipei Hu; Han-Zhu Qian; Yuhua Ruan; Zhen Jin; Hui Xing; Yiming Shao; Sten H. Vermund

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171295

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Expanded antiretroviral treatment, sexual networks, and condom use: Treatment as prevention unlikely to succeed without partner reduction among men who have sex with men in China

Jie Lou,

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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Peipei Hu,

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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Han-Zhu Qian,

Affiliations Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Yuhua Ruan,

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China
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Zhen Jin,

Affiliation Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
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Hui Xing,

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China
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Yiming Shao ,

* E-mail: sten.vermund@yale.edu (SHV); yshao08@gmail.com (YS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China
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Sten H. Vermund

* E-mail: sten.vermund@yale.edu (SHV); yshao08@gmail.com (YS)

Affiliations Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7289-8698

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Expanded antiretroviral treatment, sexual networks, and condom use: Treatment as prevention unlikely to succeed without partner reduction among men who have sex with men in China

Jie Lou,
Peipei Hu,
Han-Zhu Qian,
Yuhua Ruan,
Zhen Jin,
Hui Xing,
Yiming Shao,
Sten H. Vermund

Published: April 13, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171295

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