Recruitment of Caribbean female commercial sex workers at high risk of HIV infection

• Main Authors: Marie Marcelle Deschamps, Carmen D. Zorrilla, Cecilia A. Morgan, Yeycy Donastorg, Barbara Metch, Tamra Madenwald, Patrice Joseph, Karine Severe, Sheyla Garced, Marta Perez, Gina Escamilia, Edith Swann, Jean William Pape
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2013
• Subjects: Infecciones por VIH; síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida; vacunas contra el sida; trabajadores sexuales; región del Caribe; República Dominicana; Haití; Puerto Rico; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/95f58011dfb3488495a5924decf0b0f3

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate novel eligibility criteria and outreach methods to identify and recruit women at high risk of HIV-1 infection in the Caribbean. METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted in 2009-2012 among 799 female commercial sex workers in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto R...