Evaluating sexual health in sex workers and men who have sex with men: the SMESH cross-sectional protocol study.

Eliana Marcia WendlandMarina BesselJuliana ComerlatoJaqueline Driemeyer Correia HorvathFrederico FalcettaGerson Fernando Mendes PereiraFlávia Moreno Alves de SouzaCarla DominguesAna Goretti Kalume MaranhãoNatalia Luiza Kops

Published in: BMJ open (2019)

The project was approved by the research ethics committee of the main institution and the corresponding ethics committees of the recruitment sites. Due to the literature gap on the sexual health of sex workers and MSM and the intense stigma surrounding these populations, a critical analysis of the study results will contribute to epidemiological knowledge and will be useful for the development of strategies against virus morbidities.

Keyphrases

men who have sex with men
hiv testing
hiv positive
public health
randomized controlled trial
big data
quality improvement
mental illness
artificial intelligence
south africa
deep learning
human immunodeficiency virus