Sampling studies to estimate the HIV prevalence rate in female commercial sex workers

INTRODUCTION: We investigated sampling methods being used to estimate the HIV prevalence rate among female commercial sex workers. METHODS: The studies were classified according to the adequacy or not of the sample size to estimate HIV prevalence rate and according to the sampling method (probabilis...

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Main Authors: Ana Roberta Pati Pascom, Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Aristides Barbosa Júnior
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000400014&lng=en&tlng=en