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| Title |
Increasing condom use and declining STI prevalence in high-risk MSM and TGs: evaluation of a large-scale prevention program in Tamil Nadu, India
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-857 |
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| Authors |
Thilakavathi Subramanian, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, Santhakumar Aridoss, Prabuddhagopal Goswami, Boopathi Kanguswami, Mathew Shajan, Rajat Adhikary, Girish Kumar Chethrapilly Purushothaman, Senthil Kumar Ramamoorthy, Eswaramurthy Chinnaswamy, Ilaya Bharathy Veeramani, Ramesh Shivram Paranjape |
| Abstract |
This paper presents an evaluation of Avahan, a large scale HIV prevention program that was implemented using peer-mediated strategies, condom distribution and sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinical services among high-risk men who have sex with men (HR-MSM) and male to female transgender persons (TGs) in six high-prevalence state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Kenya | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 103 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 17% |
| Researcher | 11 | 11% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 17% |
| Unknown | 22 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 27% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 11% |
| Psychology | 9 | 9% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Unknown | 30 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 May 2021.
All research outputs
#7,161,860
of 25,011,008 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,641
of 16,678 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#58,831
of 208,646 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#144
of 294 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,011,008 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,678 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its peers.
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