A Simultaneous Equation Approach to Estimating HIV Prevalence With Nonignorable Missing Responses
不可忽略缺失下估计 HIV 流行率的联立方程方法
Estimates of HIV prevalence are important for policy to establish the health status of a country’s population and to evaluate the effectiveness of population-based interventions and campaigns. However, participation rates in testing for surveillance conducted as part of household surveys, on which many of these estimates are based, can be low. HIV positive individuals may be less likely to participate because they fear disclosure, in which case estimates obtained using…