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Gender-based violence against female sex workers in Cameroon: prevalence and associations with sexual HIV risk and access to health services and justice

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  • Michele R Decker Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Center for Public Health & Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Carrie Lyons Center for Public Health & Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Serge Clotaire Billong Comité national de lutte contre le sida (CNLS), Ministère de la Sante Publique (MINSANTE), Yaoundé, Cameroon PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Iliassou Mfochive Njindam Center for Public Health & Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ashley Grosso Center for Public Health & Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gnilane Turpin Nunez Center for Public Health & Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Florence Tumasang PEPFAR DSF Ministère de la Sante Publique (MINSANTE), Yaoundé, Cameroon PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Matthew LeBreton Global Viral, Yaoundé, Cameroon Mosaic, Yaoundé, Cameroon PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ubald Tamoufe Global Viral, Yaoundé, Cameroon PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stefan Baral Center for Public Health & Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Michele R. Decker, Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Women's Health & Rights Program, Center for Public Health & Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, E4142, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; mdecker{at}jhu.edu
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Decker MR, Lyons C, Billong SC, et al
Gender-based violence against female sex workers in Cameroon: prevalence and associations with sexual HIV risk and access to health services and justice
Sexually Transmitted Infections 2016;92:599-604.

Publication history

  • Received November 16, 2015
  • Revised April 6, 2016
  • Accepted May 10, 2016
  • First published June 8, 2016.
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February 17, 2023

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