Abstract

Transmission of men who have sex with men( MSM)is one of the most important HIV/AIDS infected route, therefore, it is necessary to obtain accurate information estimating the numbers of MSM. The people of MSM are hidden in the society because of stigmatization, the number is hard to estimate. Network scale-up method, compared to other estimation methods, requiring representative samples of surveyed groups, is based on questionnaire survey of a statistically representative sample of the general population, and favorable for data acquisition. This method has spread abroad over the past years, In the article, this method of estimation is introduced in details. Key words: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Network scale-up method; Estimation

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