Open AccessHIV Risk profile and its socio-demographic correlates among long-distance truckers in West Bengal, India: Evidence from national HIV sentinel surveillance 2017
Author(s) -
Subrata Biswas,
Debjit Chakraborty,
Piyali Ghosh,
Pradeep Kumar,
Rajatashuvra Adhikary,
Malay Kumar Saha
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_98_20
Subject(s) - west bengal , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , environmental health , bengal , developing country , demography , geography , virology , socioeconomics , economic growth , sociology , archaeology , bay , economics
Long-distance truckers (LDTs) belong to a special sentinel group with potentially high risk of acquisition of HIV owing to their high mobility, sociodemographic vulnerability, and high-risk behaviors.