Tuberculosis screening among Bolivian sex workers and their children

Bolivian sex workers were more likely than other employed women to report tuberculosis screening only if they reported HIV screening. Of all women with household tuberculosis exposure, <40% reported screening for themselves or their children. Coupling tuberculosis screening with sex workers’ mand...

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Autores principales: Chiang, Silvia S., Paulus, Jessica K., Huang, Chi-Cheng, Newby, P.K., Quiroga, Dora Castellón, Boynton-Jarrett, Renée, Antkowiak, Lara
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Atlantis Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5558846/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25922331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2014.06.002
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author Chiang, Silvia S.
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description Bolivian sex workers were more likely than other employed women to report tuberculosis screening only if they reported HIV screening. Of all women with household tuberculosis exposure, <40% reported screening for themselves or their children. Coupling tuberculosis screening with sex workers’ mandatory HIV screenings may be a cost-efficient disease-control strategy.
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spelling pubmed-55588462017-08-16 Tuberculosis screening among Bolivian sex workers and their children Chiang, Silvia S. Paulus, Jessica K. Huang, Chi-Cheng Newby, P.K. Quiroga, Dora Castellón Boynton-Jarrett, Renée Antkowiak, Lara J Epidemiol Glob Health Article Bolivian sex workers were more likely than other employed women to report tuberculosis screening only if they reported HIV screening. Of all women with household tuberculosis exposure, <40% reported screening for themselves or their children. Coupling tuberculosis screening with sex workers’ mandatory HIV screenings may be a cost-efficient disease-control strategy. Atlantis Press 2015 2014-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5558846/ /pubmed/25922331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2014.06.002 Text en © 2014 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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