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HPVsim: an agent-based model of HPV and cervical disease

The core methods paper describing HPVsim's agent-based model of HPV transmission, natural history, and progression to cervical disease, and the open-source software that implements it.

Key findings

  • Decouples the natural-history model from any single screening or classification system, modeling disease progression as a continuous process instead.
  • Array-based computation, parallelization, and a multi-scale modeling approach keep runtime under 10 seconds per country on a laptop.
  • Calibrated to cervical cancer age distributions in the 30 most populous Sub-Saharan African countries.

Outputs

At a glance

Themes
Model methods Open-source software Natural history
Setting
Cross-cutting / methods

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