LITERATURE SURVEY - THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE IN MODELING THE AIDS EPIDEMIC

The epidemic of HIV infection and AIDS is still growing and has been s teadily rising in the national rankings of causes of death. The compos ition of the AIDS population is changing both in geographic area and r isk group. The changing behavior of the epidemic necessitates our bett er understanding of the disease and the ways of intervention. One of t he tools to facilitate this task is by the use of modeling the natural history of the epidemic. This paper attempts to provide a comprehensi ve literature survey of knowledge in modeling the AIDS epidemic and th e pertinent intervention policies. Some information on older or more o bscure papers was obtained from previous literature surveys compiled b y various authors listed in the references portion of this paper. As a conclusion to the report, different avenues for further research are addressed.