Assessment of respondent driven sampling for recruiting female sex workers in two Vietnamese cities: Reaching the unseen sex worker

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 83, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Johnston, Lisa Grazina ^a,c   Sabin, Keith ^a   Hien, Mai Thu ^b   Huong, Pham Thi ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV; Respondent driven sampling; Sex workers; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DRUG USE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RESPONDENT DRIVEN SAMPLING; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SAMPLING ERROR; SEX; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIET NAM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PROSTITUTION; SAMPLING STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION; VIETNAM;

EID: 33845657451     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-006-9099-5     Document Type: Article

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