Modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of the HIV intervention programme amongst commercial sex workers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fung, Isaac C H ^a   Guinness, Lorna ^a   Vickerman, Peter ^a   Watts, Charlotte ^a   Vannela, Gangadhar ^b   Vadhvana, Jagdish ^c   Foss, Anna M ^a   Malodia, Laxman ^d   Gandhi, Meena ^e   Jani, Gaurang ^c,f  

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

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c Jyoti Sangh   (India)

^d Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation   (India)

^e Resource Centre for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS   (India)

^f GUJARAT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GONORRHEA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATIENT EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONDOM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COMMERCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CONDOMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTITUTION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 34948827410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-195     Document Type: Article

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