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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 16.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Public Health. 2022 Jan 7;7(2):e136–e145. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00258-9

Table:

Model parameters and calibration data

Sampling Distribution Reference
HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs Triangular distributions that differ by country or territory 1,16
HCV antibody prevalence among people who inject drugs Triangular distributions that differ by country or territory 1
Population size of people who inject drugs Triangular distributions that differ by country or territory 1,16
Proportion of people who inject drugs that are unstably housed Triangular distributions that differ by country or territory 1
Average duration of injecting Triangular distributions that differ by country or territory 17
Proportion of HCV infections that spontaneously clear Uniform (0·22–0·29%) 18
Relative increase in HIV transmission risk if unstably housed Lognormal distribution with mean 1·39 (95% CI 1·06–1·84) 5
Relative increase in HCV transmission risk if unstably housed Lognormal distribution with mean 1·64 (95% CI 1·43–1·89) 5
Average duration of unstable housing (years) Uniform (0·25–2) 19-22
Annual rate of non-HIV mortality* Triangular distributions that differ by country, region, or territory 23
Average number of years before HIV mortality Differs by country depending on country-level ART coverage 25-27

ART=antiretroviral therapy. HCV=hepatitis C virus.

*

Regional estimates used as available; otherwise estimates for high-income and low-income and middle-income countries were used as appropriate.