HIV prevention programmes for female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: Outputs, cost and efficiency

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dandona, Lalit ^a   Sisodia, Pratap ^a   Prem Kumar, S G ^a   Ramesh, Y K ^a   Anod Kumar, A ^a   Chalapathi Rao, M ^a   Marseille, Elliot ^b   Someshwar, M ^a   Marshall, Nell ^b   Kahn, James G ^b  

^a ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STAFF; QUALITY CONTROL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; CONDOM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; ECONOMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTITUTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CONDOMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL;

EID: 26444593246     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-98     Document Type: Article

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