Implementation of respondent-driven sampling among female sex workers in Brazil, 2009
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A comparison of respondent-driven and venue-based sampling of female sex workers in Liuzhou, China
OBJECTIVES To compare two methods for sampling female sex workers (FSWs) for bio-behavioural surveillance. We compared the populations of sex workers recruited by the venue-based Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) method and a concurrently implemented network-based sampling method, respondent-driven sampling (RDS), in Liuzhou, China. METHODS For the PLACE protocol, all female w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0102-311X
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2011001300006