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Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Clients of Female Sex Workers and their Perspectives, Behaviors and Attitude on HIV and AIDS in Pokhara Valley: A Necessary Enquiry

By Dr. Brijesh Sathian

, Dr. Jayadevan Sreedharan

Submited on: 08 May 2012 04:54:11 PM GMT

Published on: 10 May 2012 06:46:18 AM GMT

Clients of Female Sex Workers and their Perspectives, Behaviors and Attitude on HIV and AIDS in Pokhara Valley

Posted by Dr. Thomas Herchline on 25 Jun 2012 06:51:04 PM GMT

What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
The main claim is that a study needs to be done of clients of female sex workers.
Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
No, many papers exist. One example: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/rapidsurveys/aidsbehav13(5)_881_891_2009.pdf
Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?

No. There is no discussion of previous studies on this subject.
Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?

There is no data gathered for this paper.
If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?

Not applicable
Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?

Not applicable
Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?

There is no data gathered for this paper.
Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
No. There is no data gathered for this paper and no discussion of other studies on this subject.
Other Comments:
None
Competing interests:
None
Invited by the author to review this article? :
No
Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
References:
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Medical Director, Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County STD Clinic
How to cite: Herchline T .Clients of Female Sex Workers and their Perspectives, Behaviors and Attitude on HIV and AIDS in Pokhara Valley[Review of the article 'Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Clients of Female Sex Workers and their Perspectives, Behaviors and Attitude on HIV and AIDS in Pokhara Valley: A Necessary Enquiry ' by Sreedharan J].WebmedCentral 2012;3(6):WMCRW001981

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