Venue-based HIV testing at sex work hotspots to reach adolescent girls and young women living with HIV: a cross-sectional study in Mombasa, Kenya

no code implementations • 10 Dec 2019 • Huiting Ma, Linwei Wang, Peter Gichangi, Vernon Mochache, Griffins Manguro, Helgar K Musyoki, Parinita Bhattacharjee, François Cholette, Paul Sandstrom, Marissa L Becker, Sharmistha Mishra

We compared the HIV cascade among AGYW who sell sex (YSW, N=408) versus those who do not (NSW, N=891); and triangulated the potential (100% test acceptance and accuracy) and feasible (accounting for test acceptance and sensitivity) number of AGYW that could be newly diagnosed via hotspot-based HIV rapid testing in Mombasa.

A flexible integer linear programming formulation for scheduling clinician on-call service in hospitals

no code implementations • 18 Oct 2019 • David Landsman, Huiting Ma, Jesse Knight, Kevin Gough, Sharmistha Mishra

We used simulated data to examine the sensitivity of the runtime of our linear program for various parameters and observed reassuring results, signifying the practicality and generalizability of our approach in different real-world scenarios.

Scheduling