Assessing the influence of conflict on the dynamics of sex work and the HIV and HCV epidemics in Ukraine: protocol for an observational, ethnographic, and mathematical modeling study

• Main Authors: Marissa Becker (Author), Olga Balakireva (Author), Daria Pavlova (Author), Shajy Isac (Author), Eve Cheuk (Author), Elizabeth Roberts (Author), Evelyn Forget (Author), Huiting Ma (Author), Lisa Lazarus (Author), Paul Sandstrom (Author), James Blanchard (Author), Sharmistha Mishra (Author), Rob Lorway (Author), Michael Pickles (Author), on behalf of the Dynamics Study Team (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Armed conflict erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and still continues. This conflict has resulted in an intensification of poverty, displacement and migration, and has weakened the local health system. Ukraine has some of the highest rates of HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) in Europe....