TY - JOUR AU - Blanchard, Andrea K. AU - Mohan, Haranahalli Lakkappa AU - Shahmanesh, Maryam AU - Prakash, Ravi AU - Isac, Shajy AU - Ramesh, Banadakoppa Manjappa AU - Bhattacharjee, Parinita AU - Gurnani, Vandana AU - Moses, Stephen AU - Blanchard, James F. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/03/16 TI - Community mobilization, empowerment and HIV prevention among female sex workers in south India JO - BMC Public Health SP - 234 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - While community mobilization has been widely endorsed as an important component of HIV prevention among vulnerable populations such as female sex workers (FSWs), there is uncertainty as to the mechanism through which it impacts upon HIV risk. We explored the hypothesis that individual and collective empowerment of FSW is an outcome of community mobilization, and we examined the means through which HIV risk and vulnerability reduction as well as personal and social transformation are achieved. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-234 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-13-234 ID - Blanchard2013 ER -