Published on in Vol 5, No 1 (2019): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/11737, first published .
Estimating the Population Size of Female Sex Workers in Namibia Using a Respondent-Driven Sampling Adjustment to the Reverse Tracking Method: A Novel Approach

Estimating the Population Size of Female Sex Workers in Namibia Using a Respondent-Driven Sampling Adjustment to the Reverse Tracking Method: A Novel Approach

Estimating the Population Size of Female Sex Workers in Namibia Using a Respondent-Driven Sampling Adjustment to the Reverse Tracking Method: A Novel Approach

Paul Douglas Wesson   1 * , PhD ;   Rajatashuvra Adhikary   2 * , PhD ;   Anna Jonas   3, 4 , MPH, MPA ;   Krysta Gerndt   5 , MPH ;   Ali Mirzazadeh   6 , PhD, MD, MPH ;   Frieda Katuta   3 , NP ;   Andrew Maher   5 , MPH ;   Karen Banda   5 , PhD, MPH ;   Nicholus Mutenda   3 , MSc ;   Willi McFarland   6 , MD, MPH, PhD ;   David Lowrance   4 , MD, MPH ;   Dimitri Prybylski   4 , PhD, MPH ;   Sadhna Patel   4 , MPH

1 Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Division of Prevention Science, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

2 Strategic Information/Monitoring and Evaluation, WHO India Country Office, Gurugaon, Haryana, India

3 Directorate of Special Programmes, Response Monitoring & Evaluation Subdivision, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia

4 Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

5 Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

6 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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