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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Math Biosci Eng. 2014 Oct 1;11(5):1065–1090. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2014.11.1065

Table 1.

Salient Features of All Primary Models. Quotes (″) in a cell imply an identical entry to the cell above.

Partnership Formation Partnership Dissolution Partnership Overlap Migration Location of Partners For Migrant Men with Multiple Simultaneous Partners
Compartmental: Contact as Act Relatively high to reflect that each sex act is a new partnership (represented by t in the infection model) New partner is assumed for each act (acts are treated as separate contacts) None Memoryless process with mean time between migrations of 3 or 30 weeks N/A
Compartmental: Contact as Partnership Relatively low to reflect that each sex act occurs in a limited number of long-term partnerships (represented by t in the infection model) Memoryless process with mean duration of 100 weeks Average duration of 100 weeks is assumed for each partnership (multiple acts occur within each contact) Unrestricted; locations of multiple partners are mutually independent
Network: Basic Explicitly represented by the pairing of two individuals in the network; relatively low to reflect that each sex act occurs in a limited number of long-term partnerships Explicitly represented within network model; all actors allowed to have concurrent partners, but those in more highly active groups (i.e. migrant men) are more likely to have them Unrestricted; locations of multiple partners are mutually independent
Network: Restricted Restricted; migrant men with two partners always have one in village and one in workplace