Targeting the right interventions to the right people and places: the role of geospatial analysis in HIV program planning

Gesine Meyer-Rath^{1

2

3}, Jessica B McGillen^{4

3}, Diego F Cuadros^{5

3}, Timothy B Hallett⁴, Samir Bhatt⁴, Njeri Wabiri⁶, Frank Tanser^{7

8

9

10}, Thomas Rehle¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
³ Gesine Meyer-Rath, Jessica B. McGillen, and Diego F. Cuadros contributed equally to the article.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
⁶ HIV/AIDS, STI and TB Programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria.
⁷ Africa Health Research Institute, Durban.
⁸ School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
⁹ Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
¹⁰ Research Department of Infection & Population Health, University College London, UK.
¹¹ School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Gesine Meyer-Rath et al. AIDS. 2018.

. 2018 May 15;32(8):957-963.

doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001792.

Gesine Meyer-Rath^{1

2

3}, Jessica B McGillen^{4

3}, Diego F Cuadros^{5

3}, Timothy B Hallett⁴, Samir Bhatt⁴, Njeri Wabiri⁶, Frank Tanser^{7

8

9

10}, Thomas Rehle¹¹

¹ Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
³ Gesine Meyer-Rath, Jessica B. McGillen, and Diego F. Cuadros contributed equally to the article.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
⁶ HIV/AIDS, STI and TB Programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria.
⁷ Africa Health Research Institute, Durban.
⁸ School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
⁹ Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
¹⁰ Research Department of Infection & Population Health, University College London, UK.
¹¹ School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

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