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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 6757928 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine |
| Volume | 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Mar 2016 |
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Keywords
- HIV
- AIDS
- parameter perturbation
- extinction
- persistence
- stationary distribution
- stochastic differential equations
- Brownian motion
- environmental stochasticity
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A stochastic differential equation model for the spread of HIV amongst people who inject drugs. / Liang, Yanfeng; Greenhalgh, David; Mao, Xuerong.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - A stochastic differential equation model for the spread of HIV amongst people who inject drugs
AU - Liang, Yanfeng
AU - Greenhalgh, David
AU - Mao, Xuerong
PY - 2016/3/10
Y1 - 2016/3/10
N2 - In this paper, we introduce stochasticity into the deterministic differential equation model for the spread of HIV amongst people who inject drugs (PWIDs) studied by Greenhalgh and Hay [10]. This was based on the original model constructed by Kaplan [17] which analyses the behaviour of HIV/AIDS amongst a population of PWIDs. We derive a stochastic differential equation (SDE) for the fraction of PWIDs who are infected with HIV at time t. The stochasticity is introduced using the well-known standard technique of parameter perturbation. We first prove that the resulting SDE for the fraction of infected PWIDs has a unique solution in (0,1) provided that some infected PWIDs are initially present, and next construct the conditions required for extinction and persistence. Furthermore, we also show that there exists a stationary distribution for the persistence case. Simulations using realistic parameter values are then constructed to illustrate and support our theoretical results. Our results provide new insight into the spread of HIV amongst PWIDs. The results show that the introduction of stochastic noise into a model for the spread of HIV amongst PWIDs can cause the disease to die out in scenarios where deterministic models predict disease persistence. Hence in situations where stochastic noise is important predictions of control measures such as needle cleaning or reduction of needle sharing rates needed to eliminate disease may be overly conservative.
AB - In this paper, we introduce stochasticity into the deterministic differential equation model for the spread of HIV amongst people who inject drugs (PWIDs) studied by Greenhalgh and Hay [10]. This was based on the original model constructed by Kaplan [17] which analyses the behaviour of HIV/AIDS amongst a population of PWIDs. We derive a stochastic differential equation (SDE) for the fraction of PWIDs who are infected with HIV at time t. The stochasticity is introduced using the well-known standard technique of parameter perturbation. We first prove that the resulting SDE for the fraction of infected PWIDs has a unique solution in (0,1) provided that some infected PWIDs are initially present, and next construct the conditions required for extinction and persistence. Furthermore, we also show that there exists a stationary distribution for the persistence case. Simulations using realistic parameter values are then constructed to illustrate and support our theoretical results. Our results provide new insight into the spread of HIV amongst PWIDs. The results show that the introduction of stochastic noise into a model for the spread of HIV amongst PWIDs can cause the disease to die out in scenarios where deterministic models predict disease persistence. Hence in situations where stochastic noise is important predictions of control measures such as needle cleaning or reduction of needle sharing rates needed to eliminate disease may be overly conservative.
KW - HIV
KW - AIDS
KW - parameter perturbation
KW - extinction
KW - persistence
KW - stationary distribution
KW - stochastic differential equations
KW - Brownian motion
KW - environmental stochasticity
UR - http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cmmm/aip/650438/
U2 - 10.1155/2016/6757928
DO - 10.1155/2016/6757928
M3 - Article
VL - 2016
JO - Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
JF - Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
SN - 1748-670X
M1 - 6757928
ER -