Assessment of targeted intervention programs on STI symptoms among Hijra and transgender in India: analysis of national level integrated biological and behavioral surveillance.
We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a Targeted Intervention (TI) program on Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) symptoms among Hijra and Transgender (H/TG) persons in India. We analyzed the H/TG data from the national Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance (IBBS) Survey for the yea...
| Publicado en: | AIDS Care Vol. 37; no. 9; pp. 1568 - 1576 |
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Sep2025
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