Open AccessDid Inclusion of informed consent affect the observed hiv prevalence rate among injecting drug users during hiv sentinel surveillance 2017 in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jharkhand States of Central Zone of India?
Author(s) -
Sanjay Kumar,
Farhad Ahamed,
Shashi Kant,
Partha Haldar,
Shreya Jha,
S. Irudaya Rajan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_35_20
Subject(s) - medicine , uttar pradesh , informed consent , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , inclusion (mineral) , cross sectional study , demography , socioeconomics , family medicine , alternative medicine , social science , pathology , sociology
In 2017, the sampling procedure for HIV sentinel surveillance (HSS) among all high-risk groups was changed from the consecutive sampling to random sampling along with the introduction of linked anonymous testing strategy with informed written consent.