Research Proposal: HIV

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1 Introduction
The Main Research Question
The latest news by ECDC indicates that HIV cases have risen in Europe in the past one year particularly Russia which also experiences challenge in the treatment. Even though many people are diagnosed with HIV in Russia, only a few are linked to care, but what remains crucial is that HIV prevalence increases in the east while decreasing in west. The research proposal is therefore intended to understand the news item which is about the reasons behind the HIV rise in Europe as was reported by ECDC. The research proposal will develop an evolutionary game-theoretic model to explain how social stigma and adopted behavioural traits affect the transmission of HIV across a population. The research will use a two-person relationship which will signal game as a stage game, and the evolutionary model will illustrate an interaction between the people who test HIV negative and those that are HIV positive as well as two behaviour traits. The behaviour traits will include those that will be honest enough to report their status or not and those that will accept their relationship or not. The manner in which HIV is transmitted primarily depends on the social interactions and the social stigma that the HIV favourable condition is associated with tends to deter people from being honest about their conditions.
Literature Review and the Contribution
A game theoretic model can be designed to explain the human behavior and the only way to stop the spread of HIV is through abstinence or using protection. Meaning that engaging in responsible and protected sex can help reduce the spread because it makes the speed at which it prevents speech. Game theory analysis uncovers helps in uncovering factors that help in the spread of HIV. Game theory has played a critical role to enable methodical demonstration of tactical behaviours among symbiotic agents and provides an excellent platform for systematic theorising the undercurrents of the way the disease is transmitted. The latest study in evolutionary game theory tends to explain the increase or decrease of certain behaviour personalities within or across populaces, thus presenting a critical platform for modelling the time lines of disease conditions. Information economics has also helped in understanding how available information can sometimes trigger strategic manipulation while the social preference theory specifies utility payoffs to social factors.
The literature review tends to dwell on the rates of HIV transmission, particularly the approaches applied to modeling numerous influences of human behaviour on the way the disease is spread which are then summarised into seven basic assertions about transmission I what is popularly known as the Funk et al. basic assertions about disease transmission. In the first assertion, the SIR model offers a theoretical foundation to model the spread of diseases by dividing the populace into the sets of susceptible (S), infected (I) and recovered (R). The SIR model further offers two parameters that define the level in which disease is transmitted. In the second proclamation, Funk et al. noted that the sources of information also tend to influence the rate at which...