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The Lorenz Curve: a Novel Method for Understanding Viral Load Distribution at the Population Level

Overview
Journal AIDS
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2016 Nov 11
PMID 27831945
Citations 10
Authors
Katerina A Christopoulos
Wendy Hartogensis
David V Glidden
Christopher D Pilcher
Monica Gandhi
Elvin H Geng
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Abstract

Existing HIV care cascade metrics fail to capture whether viremia is equally distributed in a population or concentrated within groups. We applied the Lorenz curve, which has been used to describe disparities in the distribution of income and other resources, to the distribution of viremia in a safety-net HIV clinic in 2012. Among 1855 established clinic patients, 1% of the population held 50% of the virus and 10% of the population held 94% of virus.

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