Does scale matter? The costs of HIV-prevention interventions for commercial sex workers in India

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 747-755

  Guinness, Lorna ^a   Kumaranayake, Lilani ^a   Rajaraman, Bhuvaneswari ^b   Sankaranarayanan, Girija ^c   Vannela, Gangadhar ^d   Raghupathi, P ^e   George, Alex ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Centre for Economic and Social Studies   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Condoms economics; Contact tracing economics; Costs and cost analysis; HIV infections prevention and control economics; India; Prostitution; Sexually transmitted diseases therapy

Indexed keywords

COST; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROSTITUTION; SCALE EFFECT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CONDOM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; WORKER;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 26944499051     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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