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Hannah will be presenting a poster that she had presented at the AIDS conference a few weeks ago on “Modelling the future impact of underage and coerced entry into sex work on HIV transmission in Tijuana, Mexico”

Some additional info: Some female sex workers (FSW) are initiated into sex work underage (<18), or are forced/coerced, likely increasing their vulnerability to exploitation, violence and infections, including HIV. We undertake epidemiological analyses and HIV transmission modelling to understand the potential contribution that underage or forced/coerced entry into sex work has on HIV transmission among FSW in Tijuana, Mexico.

I am an infectious disease mathematical modeller based in Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol. I am currently working with Professors Peter Vickerman and Matthew Hickman on mathematical models of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV prevention among high-risk populations including people who inject drugs. Specifically, my work focusses on modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of scaling up prevention interventions and treatment to reduce prevalence and incidence of HCV and HIV.

I completed my PhD in 2015 at the University of Bath. My thesis used several mathematical modelling techniques to examine how the epidemiological dynamics of dengue are affected by interactions between serotypes and age-dependent variation in the extent to which people are exposed to mosquitoes.

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