D by a woman working on the streets was only 34.6 , indicating homophily (Table 4). On balance, the estimated proportion of FSW from indoor venues is 59.0 and street workers 41.0 . Considering stratification by workplace, the weighted estimate of the prevalence of HIV was of 5.0 . The tendency to recruit peers from the same stratum by workplace is illustrated in the Rio de Janeiro network (Figure
On the street, but only in those working in indoor venues, the network developed more quickly among FSW in indoor venues. Considering the transference process of sampling methods in populations to which it is difficult to gain access, conducted by the Global AIDS Program, Centers of Disease Control, a pilot study in Brazil, conducted in the city of Santos, SP, Southeastern Brazil, used the RDS met
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