Respondent-Driven Sampling Recruitment Dynamics Among People Who Smoke Drugs in South Africa

Hannah Ruth Sullivan, Tara Carney, Frances Ratangee, Nandi Niemand, Danie Theron, C Robert Horsburgh +4 more

BackgroundRespondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a widely used peer-recruitment strategy to study hard-to-reach populations including people who use drugs. South Africa continues to experience increasing illicit substance use alongside high burdens of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. Little is known about the factors that influence RDS recruitment success in these settings, especially in rural areas. MethodsA total of 750…