Modeling HIV Transmission and AIDS in the United States
Ark, James W. van / Hethcote, Herbert W.
The disease that came to be called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first identified in the summer of 1981. By that time, nearly 100, 000 persons in the United States may have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By the time the routes of transmission were clearly identified and HIV was established as the cause of AIDS in 1983, over 300, 000 people may have been infected. That number has continued to increase, wi...