Phylodynamics and migration data help describe HIV transmission dynamics in internally displaced people who inject drugs in Ukraine
Journal: medRxiv
Year: 2022

ABSTRACT Internally-displaced persons are often excluded from HIV molecular epidemiology surveillance due to structural, behavioral, and social barriers in access to treatment. We test a novel field-based molecular epidemiology framework to study HIV transmission dynamics in a hard-to-reach and highly-stigmatized group, internally-displaced people who inject drugs (IDPWID). We inform the framework by Nanopore generated HIV pol sequences and IDPWID migration history. In June-September 2020, we re