Open AccessPrevalence estimates of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C among female sex workers (FSW) in Brazil, 2016
Author(s) -
Orlando da Costa Ferreira-Júnior,
Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães,
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald,
Wanessa da Silva de Almeida,
Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1536-5964
pISSN - 0025-7974
DOI - 10.1097/md.0000000000009218
Subject(s) - medicine , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , sex workers , sex work , hepatitis c , female sex , hepatitis b , demography , environmental health , virology , population , research methodology , sociology
Female sex workers (FSW) bear a high burden of sexually transmitted infections (STI). In this paper, we estimate the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HBV = hepatitis B virus (HBV), HCV = hepatitis C virus (HCV), syphilis and co-infections in the second Biological and Behavioral Surveillance Survey among FSW in Brazil.