Competition is not necessarily a barrier to community mobilisation among sex workers: An intervention planning assessment from Zimbabwe

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mtetwa, Sibongile ^a   Busza, Joanna ^b   Davey, Calum ^b   Wong Gruenwald, Ramona ^c   Cowan, Frances ^a,d  

^a CENTRE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND HIV AIDS RESEARCH   (Zimbabwe)

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

^c Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ HIV Prevention Project   (Zimbabwe)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SEX WORKER; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; ZIMBABWE;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SEX WORKERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84938925675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2118-2     Document Type: Article

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