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The Anderson-May model of HIV transmission

This model has similarities to the Standard SIR model in that some compartments experience exponential decay and there is a mixing term that leads to logistic growth. The logistic growth term assumes that the population is well mixed but it is hard to see how either sexual transmission or needle sharing would lead to such mixing.

Themes

Epidemiology, Exponential decay, Logistic

History

1917 AD Ross & Hudson Compartmental models
1927 AD Kermack & McKendrick Standard SIR model
1987 AD Anderson & May Anderson-May model for HIV