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Sunil S. Solomon
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3296-1514
Allison M. McFall
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-2931
Gregory M. Lucas
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Aylur K. Srikrishnan
Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India
Muniratnam S. Kumar
Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-9218
Santhanam Anand
Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India
Thomas C. Quinn
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
David D. Celentano
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Shruti H. Mehta
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of AmericaAbstract
Background
A major barrier to achieving ambitious targets for global control of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is low levels of awareness of infection among key populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and people who inject drugs (PWID). We explored the potential of a strategy routinely used for surveillance in these groups, respondent-driven sampling (RDS), to be used as an intervention to identify...