Jana S, Thawani G, Samajdar S, Bose D, Nath D, Bannerji B; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1996 Jul 7-12; 11: 481 (abstract no. Pub.C.1284).
Sonagachi Project, Dept. of Epidemiology, Calcutta, India. Fax: 33 241 2539.
Objective: To assess the impact of an intervention programme among female sexworkers, mainly comprising health care provision, condom programming and IEC activities. Methods: Four hundred and seventy five sexworkers were selected on the basis of random sampling in Sonagachi area in July/August 1995. They represented the three socio-economic categories of sexworkers in Sonagachi. Results: An initial baseline survey was conducted in April to May 1992 among four hundred and fifty sexworkers. Another survey was carried out in July-August 1995. VDRL in all dilutions was 58.75% in 1992 as compared to 57.47% in 1995 (P is less than 0.699402). Dilutions of 1:4 and above show a percentage of 21.05% in 1995 as against 38.47% in 1992 (P is less than 0.000000). The condom use rate increased from 2.7% during the baseline to 81.7% in 1995. Conclusions: Though VDRL seropositivity remained more or less static when all dilutions are taken, there is a significant drop in VDRL positivity in higher dilutions. This fall was due to the combined efforts of health services and increase in condom use by the clients of the sexworkers.
Publication Types:
Keywords:
- Behavior
- Condoms
- Data Collection
- Female
- Humans
- Research
- Safe Sex
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- transmission
Other ID:
UI: 102221623
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