Capture-recapture for estimating the size of the female sex worker population in three cities in Côte d'Ivoire and in Kisumu, western Kenya;La méthode de capture-recapture pour estimer la taille de la population des professionnelles du sexe dans trois villes de la Côte d'Ivoire et à Kisumu dans l'ouest du Kenya

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1537-1543

  Vuylsteke, Bea ^a,b   Vandenhoudt, Hilde ^a   Langat, Lilian ^a   Semde, Gisèle ^b   Menten, Joris ^a   Odongo, Fredrick ^c   Anapapa, Ayubu ^c   Sika, Lazare ^d   Buve, Anne ^a   Laga, Marie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d National Institute of Statistics   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Africa; AIDS prevention; Capture recapture; Female sex workers; Mapping; Size estimation

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; PROSTITUTION;

ARTICLE; CITY; ETHICS; EXERCISE; FEMALE WORKER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; KENYA; POPULATION; PROSTITUTION;

CITIES; COTE D'IVOIRE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; KENYA; POPULATION DENSITY; PROSTITUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 78649690672     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02654.x     Document Type: Article

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