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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Unrestricted; locations of multiple partners are mutually independent |
Network: Restricted |
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Restricted; migrant men with two partners always have one in village and one in workplace |