Sexually-Transmitted Diseases (STDs) constitute a major public health concern. Mathematical models for the transmission dynamics of STDs indicate that heterogeneity in sexual activity level allow them to persist even when the typical behavior of the …
Recent research into the properties of human sexual contact networks has suggested that the degree distribution of the contact graph exhibits power-law scaling. One notable property of this power-law scaling is that for a range of scaling exponents, …
There has been a growing interest in the application of social network theory to the epidemiology of sexually-transmitted diseases (STD). This interest arises from recognition that STDs are transmitted through binary contacts and, consequently, …