KEY POPULATION SIZE ESTIMATION WITH NSUM TO HIV PREVENTION ACTIVITIES

Background and Aim : The UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets have focused the international HIV response on the goal of eliminating HIV by 2030. So This paper described estimation of key population to fundamental for service planning and prevention activities.Methods : from 2016 to 2017, we used Network Scale Up Method (NSUM) to estimation of FSWs, CFSWs, FSMs, and MSFs in Iranshahr province. Street based sampling was employed on 1000 participant aging over 18 years and resident for at least 5 years. the estimated size was adjusted for Transmission error and Barrier effect.Results : In this study, 500 men and 500 women were included. We estimations were 1125(CI95% 921.9 - 1329.0) to FSWs, 1129(CI95% 912.0-1346.3) to CFSWs, 1213(CI95% 952.4 - 1473.4) to FSMs and 1746(CI95% 1479.0-2049/5) to MSFs, per 100,000 population of Iranshahr. Entirely male participants, those aging 25 to 39 years, married people, diploma education level, service providers, and people living in the town knew more these groups.Conclusion : size estimation for key population appropriate for guiding the HIV response toward reaching The UNAIDS targets and eliminating HIV, particularly in the face of decreased funding for HIV and specifically for Key population.

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HIV ، Network scale-up ، size estimation ، Key population ، Iran