Putting Respondent-Driven Sampling on the Map: Insights from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Toledo, Lidiane; Codeço, Cláudia Torres; Bertoni, Neilane; Albuquerque, Elizabeth; Malta, Monica Siqueira; Bastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro

Article

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Toledo L. et al. Putting Respondent-Driven Sampling on the Map: Insights from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, New York, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. v.57,(Suppl.) p.136-143, August 15, 2011.

https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/4272

10.1097/QAI.0b013e31821e9981

https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8859144

Autor

Toledo, Lidiane

Codeço, Cláudia Torres

Bertoni, Neilane

Albuquerque, Elizabeth

Malta, Monica Siqueira

Bastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro

Institución

Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Brasil)

Resumen

Brazilian Multicity Study Group on Drug Misuse

Hard-to-reach populations with high background infection rates for HIV are particularly relevant in countries with restricted HIVepidemics, such as Brazil, where the very dynamics of the epidemic depends on the bridges between those populations and the general population. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) has been one of the key strategies to assess such populations and inform policy making