- Author
- FHI - Family Health International
- Title
- National Study of Reproductive Tract and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Survey of High Risk Groups in Lahore and Karachi, 2005
- Editor
- National AIDS Control Program, Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan
- Imprint
- 2005, 60 pp
- Url
- http://aidsportal.org/store/1293.pdf
- Description
National Study of Reproductive Tract and Sexually Transmitted Infections was conducted for National AIDS Control Program, Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan, by Family Health International (FHI) in collaboration with Pakistan Medical Research Council
(PMRC) and other partners, and funding from United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID).- Abstract
"Integrated Biologic (HIV/STI) and Behavioural Surveillance surveys were carried out from March to August 2004 in Lahore and Karachi in the following high risk groups: injecting drug users, female sex workers, male sex workers, Hijras (transgenders) and truckers. Sample sizes were 400 in each group at each site with the exception of Hijras, for whom the sample size was 200 at each site."