High HIV and syphilis prevalence among female sex workers and sexually exploited adolescents in Nimule town at the border of South Sudan and Uganda

Alfred G. Okiria; Victoria Achut; Erin McKeever; Alex Bolo; Joel Katoro; Golda Caesar Arkangelo; Acaga Taban Ismail Michael; Avi J. Hakim

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0266795

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High HIV and syphilis prevalence among female sex workers and sexually exploited adolescents in Nimule town at the border of South Sudan and Uganda

Alfred G. Okiria ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Alfred G. Okiria, Erin McKeever, Avi J. Hakim

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: aokiria@intrahealth.org

Affiliation IntraHealth International, Juba, South Sudan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-9434

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Victoria Achut,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South Sudan Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan
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Erin McKeever ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Alfred G. Okiria, Erin McKeever, Avi J. Hakim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2903-6093

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Alex Bolo,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Juba, South Sudan
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Joel Katoro,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Juba, South Sudan
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Golda Caesar Arkangelo,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South Sudan Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan
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Acaga Taban Ismail Michael,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IntraHealth International, Juba, South Sudan, South Sudan Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan
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Avi J. Hakim

Contributed equally to this work with: Alfred G. Okiria, Erin McKeever, Avi J. Hakim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
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High HIV and syphilis prevalence among female sex workers and sexually exploited adolescents in Nimule town at the border of South Sudan and Uganda

Alfred G. Okiria,
Victoria Achut,
Erin McKeever,
Alex Bolo,
Joel Katoro,
Golda Caesar Arkangelo,
Acaga Taban Ismail Michael,
Avi J. Hakim

Published: January 18, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266795

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