Open AccessCharacterizing Sociostructural Associations With New HIV Diagnoses Among Female Sex Workers in Cameroon
Author(s) -
Anna L Bowring,
Sosthenes Ketende,
Serge Clotaire Billong,
Iliassou Mfochive Njindam,
Amrita Rao,
Michele R. Decker,
Carrie Lyons,
Gnilane Turpin,
Guy H. Fako,
Oluwasolape Olawore,
Flavien Ndonko,
Daniel Levitt,
Ghislaine Fouda,
Ubald Tamoufé,
Oudou Njoya,
Anne Cécile Zoung-Kanyi Bissek,
Stefan Baral
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000001920
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , confidence interval , poisson regression , incidence (geometry) , sex work , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , immunology , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
Female sex workers (FSW) are disproportionately affected by HIV in Cameroon, with an estimated 23.6% HIV prevalence. Given the unavailability of HIV incidence data, to better understand associations with acquiring HIV we assessed the prevalence and associations with new HIV diagnoses among FSW in Cameroon.