Community mobilisation and empowerment interventions as part of HIV prevention for female sex workers in Southern India: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

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Published in PLoS One on October 21, 2014

Authors

Anna Vassall1, Sudhashree Chandrashekar2, Michael Pickles3, Tara S Beattie1, Govindraj Shetty4, Parinita Bhattacharjee5, Marie-Claude Boily6, Peter Vickerman1, Janet Bradley7, Michel Alary8, Stephen Moses4, CHARME India Group, Charlotte Watts1

Author Affiliations

1: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
2: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; St John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
3: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
4: Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore, India.
5: St John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
6: Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
7: URESP, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Québec, Canada.
8: URESP, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Québec, Canada; Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

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