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Availability and Quality of Size Estimations of Female Sex Workers, Men Who Have Sex with Men, People Who Inject Drugs and Transgender Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
... as female sex workers (FSW), men who had sex with men (MSM), people who inject drugs (PWID) and transgender women, dis- proportionately ...MSM, sex workers had 28, 19 and 12 times higher HIV ...
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B chromosomes have a functional effect on female sex determination in Lake Victoria cichlid fishes.
... the sex-determination system may also play a role in speciation, little is known about the sex-determination system of Lake Victoria ...the sex-determination system in these fish, we performed ...
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Viral hepatitis in female sex workers using the Respondent-Driven Sampling
... many female sex workers do you know?”, “How many female sex workers do you know personally and who you have met in the last 30 days in Goiânia?”, “Considering all female sex ...
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Male use of female sex work in India: a nationally representative behavioural survey.
... for sex ratio and urban/rural sampling proportion in each state ...using female sex work among Indian men reporting any non-regular partner in the past year, by region and marital status, ...
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Sleep disturbances in older adults are associated to female sex, pain and urinary incontinence
... Among the elderly, 44.9% presented difficulties with sleep, being more frequent in the female sex (51.5% of women have difficulties, as well as 34.5% of men) and among the individuals aged75 to 79 years ...
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HIV Frequency Among Female Sex Workers in Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
... to female sex workers since they are at great risk both for contracting and disseminating HIV ...safe sex with the use of condoms, and the difficulty of adhesion to prevention measures, make this ...
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Short Communication High-risk behaviors for hepatitis B and C infections among female sex workers
... Introduction: The prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C and risk behaviors among 402 female sex workers in Central Brazil were investigated by respondent-driven sampling. Methods: Blood samples were ...
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Sexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Street-Based Female Sex Workers in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
... women living adjacent to truck stops are at greater risk for STDs [15]. An etiological study of STIs was conducted by Rahman et al. [16] among female sex workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh; 84% were positive for ...
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HIV due to female sex work: regional and global estimates.
... general female adult population would shift to the prevalence of a population with no (unsafe) female sex ...make female sex work completely ...
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Psychological fears among low-paid female sex workers in southwest China and their implications for HIV prevention.
... age, female sex workers (FSWs) are taking a disproportionately high burden of HIV infection due to biological, behavioral and structural risk factors ...commercial sex venues and charge much less for ...
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HIV-1 RNA dysregulates the natural TLR response to subclinical endotoxemia in Kenyan female sex-workers.
... We recently reported that mRNA expression of multiple TLRs, including TLR4, TLR7 and TLR8, are significantly increased in PBMCs of subjects chronically infected with HIV-1[13]. A proinflammatory consequence is inferred, ...
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Frontline Health Service Providers' Perspectives on HIV Vaccine Trials among Female Sex Workers and Men Who Have Sex with Men in Karnataka, South India.
... affects female sex workers (FSWs) and men who have sex with men (MSM) [8], these communities could particularly benefit from the development of an effective HIV ...
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Correlates of condom use among female sex workers in The Gambia: results of a cross-sectional survey
... of sex work to a health worker may also affect condom access and ...of sex work as a barrier for the healthcare system to provide condoms to FSW (Scorgie et ...
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Sleep disturbances in older adults are associated to female sex, pain and urinary incontinence
... Entre os idosos, 44,9% apresentavam dificuldades com o sono, sendo essa característica mais frequente no sexo feminino (51,5% das mulheres têm dificuldades, assim como 34,5% dos homens[r] ...
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Safety and adherence to intermittent pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-1 in African men who have sex with men and female sex workers.
... Our findings on PrEP safety, acceptability and adherence in African MSM may be applicable to MSM in other settings, particularly in the developing world and in groups with high rates of transactional sex and ...
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Factors associated with inconsistent condom use with clients among female sex workers in Podgorica, Montenegro
... There are a few limitations to this study. Our study is limited by imperfection of snowball sampling design and its relatively small sample size, which may lead to reduced representativeness and lack of statistical ...
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Seropositivity and risk factors for herpes simplex virus type 2 infection among female sex workers in Guangxi, China.
... The demographic characteristics of our study population are presented in table 1. A total of 2,453 FSWs, consisting of 1,115 (45.5%) FSWs from high-tier venues, 993 (40.5%) from middle-tier venues and 225 (9.2%) from ...
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Women vs Women. The denunciation of female sex by female characters in drama
... This denunciation of her sex seems unfamiliar to a character who only 47 verses earlier (l. 222-225) was taking pride for all that she had offered in the life of Hector, as a woman, even reaching the point of ...
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Risk behaviours among female sex workers in China: a systematic review and data synthesis.
... based FSW have higher prevalence of HIV [35, 46], yet testing has reached only 37% nationally [25]. Government supported, enhanced community-based syphilis screening and treatment programs for FSW have significantly ...
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