Respondent-driven sampling as a recruitment method for men who have sex with men in southern sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional analysis by wave

Shauna Stahlman; Lisa G Johnston; Clarence Yah; Sosthenes Ketende; Sibusiso Maziya; Gift Trapence; Vincent Jumbe; Bhekie Sithole; Tampose Mothopeng; Zandile Mnisi; Stefan Baral

doi:10.1136/sextrans-2015-052184

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Respondent-driven sampling as a recruitment method for men who have sex with men in southern sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional analysis by wave

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Shauna Stahlman Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lisa G Johnston Department of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Clarence Yah Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Sosthenes Ketende Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Sibusiso Maziya Rock of Hope, Manzini, Swaziland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gift Trapence Center for the Development of People, Blantyre, Malawi PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Vincent Jumbe Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bhekie Sithole Rock of Hope, Mbabane, Swaziland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tampose Mothopeng Rock of Hope, Mbabane, Swaziland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Zandile Mnisi Ministry of Health, Mbabane, Swaziland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Stefan Baral Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Shauna Stahlman, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, E7133, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; sstahlm1{at}jhu.edu

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Stahlman S, Johnston LG, Yah C, et al

Respondent-driven sampling as a recruitment method for men who have sex with men in southern sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional analysis by wave

Sexually Transmitted Infections 2016;92:292-298.

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Received May 29, 2015
Revised August 24, 2015
Accepted September 12, 2015
First published September 30, 2015.

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May 19, 2016

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