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Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions
(2008)
This study validates my own clinical experience that sex workers are sometimes stigmatized. discriminated against and denied services.
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This article is about how stigma can and does interfere with ...
Commercial sexual practices before and after legalization in Australia.
(2010)
Similar to the article, in my experience. newcomers to sex work are mostly young, sometimes without any other means of earning money, have low
knowledge of STls and are lacking in negotiation skills for safer sex ...
Domestic minor sex trafficking in the United States
(2010)
The study is significant because it highlights areas that do not seem to be on the daily agenda of social workers in the USA. In light of this article, it
is clear that there is a gap in responding to reproductive health ...
Determinants of consistent condom use among female commercial sex workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo: implications for interventions.
(2008)
Substance use, including injecting drug use, (IOU) has been associated with comparatively low condom usage. This article confirms my
observations at different levels.
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Women, harm reduction and HIV.
(2008)
This study touches on three important barriers to harm reduction with regards to drug use, unprotected sex and the sex trade.
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There is an unavailability of targeted drug treatment centres for women. ...
Correlates of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and associated high-risk behaviors among male clients of female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico
(2009)
This study is interesting because it pertains to the behaviour of adult men who have exchanged sex for money, as well as their drug use and
prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STls) and HIV. Male clients are ...
A descriptive profile of abused female sex workers in India.
(2010)
The alarming results of this important descriptive study on 100 abused female sex workers from Chennai, India, illustrate that female sex workers
experience severe forms of violence by clients. Female sex workers need to ...
HIV prevention and street-based male sex workers: an evaluation of brief interventions.
(2006)
This study shows that brief interventions to reduce HIV risk were acceptable to male sex workers (MSWs) and are efficacious for reducing
unprotected anal sex during paid sexual encounters. These methods should be developed ...
Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access for female sex workers in Chennai, India
(2009)
This article is important because it highlights the level of stigma experienced by women who are involved in sex work and are HIV-positive, thus
experiencing a double stigma. Because of this, the sex workers were said to ...
Assessing acceptability of parents/guardians of adolescents towards introduction of sex and reproductive health education in schools at Kinondoni Municipal in Oar es Salaam city.
(2008)
The article is about whether youth education on condom use is seen by parents/guardians as promoting promiscuity. This conflicts with the
parents'/guardians' desire to protect them from HIV infection.
This study confirms ...