HIV Risk Perception and Behavior among Sex Workers in Three Major Urban Centers of Mozambique

HIV risk perceptions and behaviors of 236 commercial sex workers from three major Mozambican urban centers were studied using the International Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation (I-RARE) methodology. All were offered HIV testing and, in Maputo, syphilis testing was offered as well. Sixty-thr...

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Autores principales: Langa, Judite, Sousa, César, Sidat, Mohsin, Kroeger, Karen, McLellan-Lemal, Eleanor, Belani, Hrishikesh, Patel, Shama, Shodell, Daniel, Shodell, Michael, Benech, Irene, Needle, Richard
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24736653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094838
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author Langa, Judite
Sousa, César
Sidat, Mohsin
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McLellan-Lemal, Eleanor
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Shodell, Daniel
Shodell, Michael
Benech, Irene
Needle, Richard
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Belani, Hrishikesh
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Needle, Richard
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description HIV risk perceptions and behaviors of 236 commercial sex workers from three major Mozambican urban centers were studied using the International Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation (I-RARE) methodology. All were offered HIV testing and, in Maputo, syphilis testing was offered as well. Sixty-three of the 236 opted for HIV testing, with 30 (48%) testing positive for HIV. In Maputo, all 30 receiving HIV tests also had syphilis testing, with 6 (20%) found to be positive. Results include interview excerpts and qualitative results using I-RARE methodology and AnSWR-assisted analyses of the interviews and focus group sessions.
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spelling pubmed-39880962014-04-21 HIV Risk Perception and Behavior among Sex Workers in Three Major Urban Centers of Mozambique Langa, Judite Sousa, César Sidat, Mohsin Kroeger, Karen McLellan-Lemal, Eleanor Belani, Hrishikesh Patel, Shama Shodell, Daniel Shodell, Michael Benech, Irene Needle, Richard PLoS One Research Article HIV risk perceptions and behaviors of 236 commercial sex workers from three major Mozambican urban centers were studied using the International Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation (I-RARE) methodology. All were offered HIV testing and, in Maputo, syphilis testing was offered as well. Sixty-three of the 236 opted for HIV testing, with 30 (48%) testing positive for HIV. In Maputo, all 30 receiving HIV tests also had syphilis testing, with 6 (20%) found to be positive. Results include interview excerpts and qualitative results using I-RARE methodology and AnSWR-assisted analyses of the interviews and focus group sessions. Public Library of Science 2014-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3988096/ /pubmed/24736653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094838 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain declaration, which stipulates that, once placed in the public domain, this work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose.
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Shodell, Michael
Benech, Irene
Needle, Richard
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