Open AccessHIV-Risk Behavior Among the Male Migrant Factory Workers in a North Indian City
Author(s) -
Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader,
Kiran Goswami,
K Sanjay,
Puneet Misra,
Shashi Kant
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.153874
Subject(s) - demography , condom , logistic regression , migrant workers , medicine , population , sexual intercourse , sex workers , workforce , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , syphilis , family medicine , research methodology , sociology , economics , economic growth
Male migrants act as a bridge for transmitting infection from core risk groups to general population and hence this group becomes essential for the HIV control program. Migrant workers constitute a large proportion of workforce in India and HIV/AIDS epidemic in them would cause huge economic losses.