Drugs and treatments

The following parameters determine the efficacy of drugs and other treatments.

Note

Parameters are case-sensitive. For Boolean parameters, set to 1 for true or 0 for false. Minimum, maximum, or default values of “NA” indicate that those values are not applicable for that parameter.

EMOD does not use true defaults; that is, if the dependency relationships indicate that a parameter is required, you must supply a value for it. However, many of the tools used to work with EMOD will use the default values provided below.

JSON format does not permit comments, but you can add “dummy” parameters to add contextual information to your files. Any keys that are not EMOD parameter names will be ignored by the model.

Parameter

Data type

Minimum

Maximum

Default

Description

Example

ART_CD4_at_Initiation_Saturating_Reduction_in_Mortality

float

0

3.40E+38

350

The duration from ART enrollment to on-ART HIV-caused death increases with CD4 at ART initiation up to a threshold determined by this parameter value.

 
{
    "ART_CD4_at_Initiation_Saturating_Reduction_in_Mortality": 350
}

Maternal_Transmission_ART_Multiplier

float

0

1

0.1

The maternal transmission multiplier for on-ART mothers.

 
{
    "Maternal_Transmission_ART_Multiplier": 0.03
}

Report_HIV_ByAgeAndGender_Collect_Intervention_Data

array of strings

NA

NA

NA

Stratifies the population by adding a column of 0s and 1s depending on whether or not the person has the indicated intervention. This only works for interventions that remain with a person for a period of time, such as ART, VMMC, vaccine/PrEP, or a delay state in the cascade of care. You can name the intervention by adding a parameter Intervention_Name in the campaign file, and then give this parameter the same Intervention_Name. This allows you to have multiple types of vaccines, VMMCs, etc., but to only stratify on the type you want.

 
{
    "Report_HIV_ByAgeAndGender_Collect_Intervention_Data": [
        "ART_Intervention",
        "PrEP_Intervention"
    ]
}

Report_HIV_ByAgeAndGender_Collect_On_Art_Data

boolean

0

1

0

Controls whether or not the output report is stratified by those people who are on ART and those who are not. Set to true (1) to enable stratification by ART status.

 
{
    "Report_HIV_ByAgeAndGender_Collect_On_Art_Data": 1
}