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HIV/AIDS in the Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the biggest threats against sustainable human development in the region. One of the implications of this epidemic is that it not only affects individuals and their households but also increases burden on traditional social and support networks or safety nets. Research reported in recent years, have indicated on the possibility of weakening and even breaking of these support networks. In this paper, we suggest that by analyzing dynamical networks generated from agent-based simulations, one could describe this effect with better precision. This idea is based upon our previous work, which attempts at finding techniques to identify structural changes in dynamic networks.
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Alam, S.J., Meyer, R. (2008). Structural Changes in Agent-Based Simulations: Representing HIV/AIDS Impact on Social Networks. In: Friemel, T.N. (eds) Why Context Matters. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91184-7_9
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