HIV prevention programmes for female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: outputs, cost and efficiency

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Table 1 Number and intensity of services provided by the sex worker programmes in fiscal year 2002–2003.

Programme number*	Number of sex workers provided services	Total number of contacts with sex workers	Number of contacts with each sex worker	Total full time equivalents of staff	Number of contacts with sex workers per staff full time equivalent	Total number of contacts with all types of external stakeholders†	Total full time equivalents of staff other than peer educators	Number of contacts with external stakeholders per staff full time equivalent other than peer educators‡
8	6379	57077	8.9	26.00	2196	1002	8.50	118
10	4690	12477	2.7	18.75	665	1989	10.00	199
5	3847	9953	2.6	20.04	497	2880	9.79	294
9	2552	26976	10.6	15.66	1722	14869	10.16	1463
7	2336	18920	8.1	26.91	703	2015	11.66	173
11	2156	18358	8.5	14.35	1279	1111	6.85	162
1	2102	10833	5.2	14.78	733	1320	10.03	132
12	1970	14327	7.3	19.91	719	8244	10.41	792
15	1442	13064	9.1	20.33	643	1793	8.33	215
4	1350	22766	16.9	17.00	1339	2636	8.25	320
13	1274	9043	7.1	28.83	314	3016	10.33	292
2	1229	8867	7.2	11.58	766	816	8.33	98
6	915	10568	11.5	18.33	577	3433	8.33	412
14	896	7207	8.0	26.08	276	3248	8.33	390
3	803	4931	6.1	15.25	323	770	7.75	99
Total	33941	245367	7.2	293.80	835	49142	137.05	359

* Programmes arranged in decreasing order of the number of sex workers to whom they provided services in fiscal year 2002–2003.
† External stakeholders include general public, police, media, policy makers, and governmental and non-governmental agencies.
‡ Peer educators excluded here as contact with external stakeholders is made by other programme staff.

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