Recruitment using respondent driven sampling, risk behaviors assessment and willingness of young female sex workers (18–25 years) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania to participate in HIV vaccine trials

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1537 - 11
• Main Authors: Mbunda, Theodora, Tarimo, Edith A. M., Bakari, Muhammad, Sandström, Eric, Kulane, Asli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 20.11.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; AIDS vaccines; AIDS Vaccines - therapeutic use; Anal sex; Behavior; Birth control; Brokers; Clinical trials; Clinical Trials as Topic; Consent; Counseling; Cross-Sectional Studies; Discount coupons; Disease prevention; Disease transmission; Female; Females; HIV; HIV Infections - prevention & control; HIV Infections - psychology; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Illegal drugs; Immunosuppressive agents; Infections; Logistic Models; Participation; Patient Participation - statistics & numerical data; Peers; Population; Public health; Recruiting; Recruitment; Regression models; Reproductive health; Research Subjects - statistics & numerical data; Researchers; Risk taking; Sampling; Seeds; Sex; Sex industry; Sex oriented businesses; Sex Workers - statistics & numerical data; Sexual behavior; Sexual intercourse; Sexual partners; Sexually transmitted disease prevention; Sexually transmitted diseases; Social exclusion; STD; Stigma; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tanzania - epidemiology; Transgender persons; Vaccines; Women; Workers; Working women; Young Adult; Young adults; Young women; Tanzania; Sub-Saharan Africa; Zanzibar; Africa

Despite the present HIV preventive and treatment programs, the prevalence of HIV is still high in eastern and southern Africa, among young women and populations at high. risk for HIV transmission such as sex workers. There is a need to prepare a suitable population that will participate in efficacy...