Machine learning to identify persons at high-risk of human immunodeficiency virus acquisition in rural Kenya and Uganda

LB Balzer, DV Havlir, MR Kamya… - Clinical Infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background In generalized epidemic settings, strategies are needed to prioritize individuals
at higher risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition for prevention services. We …

Use of machine learning techniques to identify HIV predictors for screening in sub-Saharan Africa

CK Mutai, PE McSharry, I Ngaruye… - BMC medical research …, 2021 - Springer
Aim HIV prevention measures in sub-Saharan Africa are still short of attaining the UNAIDS
90–90-90 fast track targets set in 2014. Identifying predictors for HIV status may facilitate …

Predicting HIV status among men who have sex with men in Bulawayo & Harare, Zimbabwe using bio-behavioural data, recurrent neural networks, and machine …

I Chingombe, T Dzinamarira, D Cuadros… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
HIV and AIDS continue to be major public health concerns globally. Despite significant
progress in addressing their impact on the general population and achieving epidemic …

Indices to measure risk of HIV acquisition in Rakai, Uganda

J Kagaayi, RH Gray, C Whalen, P Fu, D Neuhauser… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Targeting most-at-risk individuals with HIV preventive interventions is cost-
effective. We developed gender-specific indices to measure risk of HIV among sexually …

Applying machine learning and predictive modeling to retention and viral suppression in South African HIV treatment cohorts

M Maskew, K Sharpey-Schafer, L De Voux… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
HIV treatment programs face challenges in identifying patients at risk for loss-to-follow-up
and uncontrolled viremia. We applied predictive machine learning algorithms to …

Prediction of HIV status based on socio-behavioural characteristics in East and Southern Africa

E Orel, R Esra, J Estill, A Thiabaud… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Introduction High yield HIV testing strategies are critical to reach epidemic control in high
prevalence and low-resource settings such as East and Southern Africa. In this study, we …

Use of electronic health record data and machine learning to identify candidates for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: a modelling study

JL Marcus, LB Hurley, DS Krakower, S Alexeeff… - The lancet HIV, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background The limitations of existing HIV risk prediction tools are a barrier to
implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). We developed and validated an HIV …

A simple risk prediction algorithm for HIV transmission: results from HIV prevention trials in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa (2002–2012)

H Wand, T Reddy, S Naidoo, S Moonsamy, S Siva… - AIDS and Behavior, 2018 - Springer
We aimed to develop a HIV risk scoring algorithm for targeted screening among women in
South Africa. We used data from five biomedical intervention trials (N= 8982 Cox regression …

Risk scores for predicting HIV incidence among adult heterosexual populations in sub‐Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

KM Jia, H Eilerts, O Edun, K Lam… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Several HIV risk scores have been developed to identify individuals for
prioritized HIV prevention in sub‐Saharan Africa. We systematically reviewed HIV risk …

Identifying risk factors for recent HIV infection in Kenya using a recent infection testing algorithm: results from a nationally representative population-based survey

AA Kim, BS Parekh, M Umuro, T Galgalo, R Bunnell… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Introduction A recent infection testing algorithm (RITA) that can distinguish recent from long-
standing HIV infection can be applied to nationally representative population-based surveys …