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Reaching the unreachable: Providing STI control services to female sex workers via mobile team outreach

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dc.contributor.author Campos, Pablo E.
dc.contributor.author Buffardi, Anne L.
dc.contributor.author Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio
dc.contributor.author Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet
dc.contributor.author Buendia, Clara
dc.contributor.author Chiappe Gutierrez, Marina Angelica
dc.contributor.author Garnett, Geoff P.
dc.contributor.author Xet-Mull, Ana Maria
dc.contributor.author Holmes, King K.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-01-04T20:31:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-01-04T20:31:48Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/10674
dc.description.abstract Background: As part of a community-randomized trial of a multicomponent intervention to prevent sexually transmitted infections, we created Mobile Teams (MTs) in ten intervention cities across Peru to improve outreach to female sex workers (FSW) for strengthened STI prevention services. Methods: Throughout 20 two-month cycles, MTs provided counseling; condoms; screening and specific treatment for Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), and vaginal Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) infections; and periodic presumptive metronidazole treatment for vaginal infections. Results: MTs had 48,207 separate encounters with 24,814 FSW; numbers of sex work venues and of FSW reached increased steadily over several cycles. Approximately 50% of FSW reached per cycle were new. Reported condom use with last client increased from 73% to 93%. Presumptive metronidazole treatment was accepted 83% of times offered. Over 38 months, CT prevalence declined from 15·4% to 8·2%, and TV prevalence from 7·3% to 2·6%. Among participants in ≥9 cycles, CT prevalence decreased from 12·9% to 6·0% (p <0·001); TV from 4·6% to 1·5% (p <0·001); and NG from 0·8% to 0·4% (p =0·07). Conclusions: Mobile outreach to FSW reached many FSW not utilizing government clinics. Self-reported condom use substantially increased; CT and TV prevalences declined significantly. The community-randomized trial, reported separately, demonstrated significantly greater reductions in composite prevalence of CT, NG, TV, or high-titer syphilis serology in FSW in these ten intervention cities than in ten matched control cities. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Public Library of Science
dc.relation.ispartofseries PLoS ONE
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject Prevalence en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.subject Community-Institutional Relations en_US
dc.subject Patient Care Team en_US
dc.subject Sex Work en_US
dc.subject Sexually Transmitted Diseases en_US
dc.title Reaching the unreachable: Providing STI control services to female sex workers via mobile team outreach en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081041
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.12
dc.relation.issn 1932-6203


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