Bibliographic record
Abstract
Here we will review how, from its central African crucible, HIV managed to disseminate throughout Africa, at the same time as it did so across the Atlantic. But first we need to review two epidemiological terms. As explained in Chapter 1, ‘incidence’ is a measure of new cases of HIV that occur among previously uninfected subjects over a period of time. The same individuals have to be tested repeatedly: this is time-consuming, expensive and rarely used. ‘Prevalence’ is the proportion of individuals who have HIV at some point in time, a snapshot that indicates the current distribution. As the median interval between HIV infection and death in Africa is about ten years, measures of HIV prevalence reflect an accumulation of individuals infected from as little as a few weeks ago to more than ten years earlier. Over time, prevalence in a population increases if the number of new infections since the previous survey was greater than the number of individuals who died from HIV or other causes. Prevalence decreases when the reverse occurs, i.e. the number of deaths is higher than the number of new infections.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".