Predicting the extinction of HIV-2 in rural Guinea-Bissau.
Fryer, Helen R;
Van Tienen, Carla;
Van Der Loeff, Maarten Schim;
Aaby, Peter;
Da Silva, Zacarias J;
Whittle, Hilton;
Rowland-Jones, Sarah L;
de Silva, Thushan I;
(2015)
Predicting the extinction of HIV-2 in rural Guinea-Bissau.
AIDS (London, England), 29 (18).
pp. 2479-2486.
ISSN 0269-9370
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000000844
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OBJECTIVE: This article predicts the future epidemiology of HIV-2 in Caió, a rural region of Guinea Bissau; and investigates whether HIV-2, which has halved in prevalence between 1990 and 2007 and is now almost absent in young adults in Caió, can persist as an infection of the elderly. DESIGN: A mathematical model of the spread of HIV-2 was tailored to the epidemic in Caió, a village in Guinea-Bissau. METHODS: An age-stratified difference equation model of HIV-2 transmission was fitted to age-stratified HIV-2 incidence and prevalence data from surveys conducted in Caió in 1990, 1997 and 2007. A stochastic version of the same model was used to make projections. RESULTS: HIV-2 infection is predicted to continue to rapidly decline in Caió such that new infections will cease and prevalence will reach low levels (e.g. below 0.1%) within a few decades. HIV-2 is not predicted to persist in the elderly. CONCLUSION: HIV-2 is predicted go extinct in Caió during the second half of this century.
