Researcher Defends Trucker HIV Study

June 14, 2000 10:05 AM, EDT

The researcher who led the survey on long-haul truckers and their risk of exposure to HIV wants to clarify several things about the findings.

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Dale Stratford is a behavioral scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who specializes in research on prevention of HIV exposure. She was the lead researcher for the study titled “Highway Cowboys, Old Hands, and Christian Truckers: Risk Behavior for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Long-Haul Truckers in Florida.”

“Of all the research I have done, I enjoyed the work with the truckers most of all,” she said. Stratford told Transport Topics that she was eager to clear up misconceptions about the survey.

As for the larger implications of the report, she said that her “statistical references are qualitatively representative of truckers in the U.S., but not statistically representative. We can make no claims about statistical representations. That would not be appropriate based on the way we chose truckers and the methods we used.”

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