Barriers to health service access among female migrant Ugandan sex workers in Guangzhou, China.

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Published in Int J Equity Health on October 14, 2016

Authors

Alissa Davis¹^,2, Beth E Meyerson³^,4, Blessing Aghaulor⁵, Katherine Brown⁶, Adisyn Watson², Kathryn E Muessig⁷, Ligang Yang⁸, Joseph D Tucker⁹^,10^,11

Author Affiliations

1: HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Division of Gender, Sexuality & Health, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 15, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
2: UNC-Project China, 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, China.
3: Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, 1025 E 7th St. Rm PH116, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
4: Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, USA.
5: School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 321 S Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, USA.
6: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California-San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Rm. 1483, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.
7: Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 306 Rosenau, Campus Box 7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
8: Guangdong Provincial STD Control Center, 2 Lujing Road, 11th Floor, Guangzhou, 510095, China.
9: UNC-Project China, 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, China. jdtucker@med.unc.edu.
10: School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 321 S Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, USA. jdtucker@med.unc.edu.
11: Guangdong Provincial STD Control Center, 2 Lujing Road, 11th Floor, Guangzhou, 510095, China. jdtucker@med.unc.edu.

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