Is Inclusion of informed consent associated with HIV seropositivity rate? findings from 2017 HIV sentinel surveillance among men having sex with men in select states of India

• Main Authors: Partha Haldar (Author), Shreya Jha (Author), Ramashankar Rath (Author), Kiran Goswami (Author), Nishakar Thakur (Author), Pradeep Kumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: During round 2017 of HIV Sentinel Surveillance (HSS) for men who have sex with men (MSM) in India, sampling strategy was changed from consecutive sampling to random sampling, and recruitment was conditioned on informed written consent. Objective: The study aimed to explore whether inclus...