Implementation of web-based respondent-driven sampling among men who have sex with men in Vietnam.

OBJECTIVE: Lack of representative data about hidden groups, like men who have sex with men (MSM), hinders an evidence-based response to the HIV epidemics. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) was developed to overcome sampling challenges in studies of populations like MSM for which sampling frames are a...

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Main Authors: Linus Bengtsson, Xin Lu, Quoc Cuong Nguyen, Martin Camitz, Nguyen Le Hoang, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Fredrik Liljeros, Anna Thorson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3495883?pdf=render