| Article ID: | iaor1998247 |
| Country: | Cuba |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 1/3 |
| Start Page Number: | 95 |
| End Page Number: | 100 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Journal: | Revista de Investigacin Operacional |
| Authors: | Arazoza Hctor, Lounes Rachid |
| Keywords: | AIDS, epidemiology |
A model for the AIDS program in Cuba is proposed, based on two classes of individuals, ‘known seropositives to HIV’ and ‘known AIDS cases’. The equations for this situation are stated, and solutions for the expectation for the variables of the two classes are calculated. Using the data from the Cuban National Program on HIV–AIDS some of the not known coefficients are found. These coefficients can be used to estimate the size of the population of the ‘unknown HIV seropositives’.