Ŀ                                                   Yearly Percentage Increase:                                                  Ŀ   The program is looking for a yearly INCREASE of the number of people          who are HIV positive, expressed in percent (%) The expected number            should express the absolute and not the relative increase.                    In order to remain on "conservative" grounds, the increase will be            applied in a linear fashion (opposed to exponential, which would result       in a more rapid increase of AIDS and the number of people who would try       to discredit the result of the Simulator. Unfortunately even a linear         increase will be quite convincing). [Suggested:1/10th of the "Population      already HIV positive", percentage. Say you entered 1% to the previous         question, use 0.1% as the Yearly Percentage Increase.]                        Example:                                                                      In year 2001 1% percent of the population was HIV positive (fiction).         In year 2002 1.1% percent of the population was HIV positive (fiction).       Usually this is called a 10% increase, 10% more than 1% of the                population (2% of the total population would be considered a 100%             increase). That is NOT the kind of number the program expects.                The program expects 0.1, the absolute increase from 1% to 1.1%.               The program  will increase the base percentage by that much in every          simulated year, until the simulation ends.                                     