Community mobilization and empowerment of female sex workers in Karnataka State, South India: associations with HIV and sexually transmitted infection risk.

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Published in Am J Public Health on June 12, 2014

Authors

Tara S H Beattie1, Harnalli L Mohan, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Sudha Chandrashekar, Shajy Isac, Tisha Wheeler, Ravi Prakash, Banadakoppa M Ramesh, James F Blanchard, Lori Heise, Peter Vickerman, Stephen Moses, Charlotte Watts

Author Affiliations

1: Tara S. H. Beattie, Lori Heise, Peter Vickerman, Charlotte Watts, and Sudha Chandrashekar are with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Harnalli L. Mohan, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Shajy Isac, and Ravi Prakash are with the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), Bangalore, India. Tisha Wheeler is with the Futures Group, Durham, NC. Banadakoppa M. Ramesh, James F. Blanchard, and Stephen Moses are with The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

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