Tailoring combination HIV prevention for female sex workers

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
² Francis I Proctor Foundation and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: catherine.oldenburg@ucsf.edu.

Comment

Katrina F Ortblad et al. Lancet HIV. 2018 Aug.

. 2018 Aug;5(8):e406-e407.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(18)30136-X. Epub 2018 Jul 18.

¹ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
² Francis I Proctor Foundation and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: catherine.oldenburg@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

Targeted combination prevention to support female sex workers in Zimbabwe accessing and adhering to antiretrovirals for treatment and prevention of HIV (SAPPH-IRe): a cluster-randomised trial.
Cowan FM, Davey C, Fearon E, Mushati P, Dirawo J, Chabata S, Cambiano V, Napierala S, Hanisch D, Wong-Gruenwald R, Masuka N, Mabugo T, Hatzold K, Mugurungi O, Busza J, Phillips A, Hargreaves JR. Cowan FM, et al. Lancet HIV. 2018 Aug;5(8):e417-e426. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(18)30111-5. Epub 2018 Jul 18. Lancet HIV. 2018. PMID: 30030134 Clinical Trial.

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