Availability and quality of size estimations of female sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and transgender women in low- and middle-income countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Sabin, Keith ^a   Zhao, Jinkou ^b,c   Garcia Calleja, Jesus Maria ^d   Sheng, Yaou ^b   Arias Garcia, Sonia ^a   Reinisch, Annette ^b   Komatsu, Ryuichi ^b  

^a UNAIDS   (Switzerland)

^b TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^c JIANGSU PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSGENDER; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; POPULATION GROWTH ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; PROSTITUTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROUP; SEX WORKER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRANSGENDER;

DATA ACCURACY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROUPS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEX WORKERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 84969900596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155150     Document Type: Article

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