Sex workers
Enhancing the Ethical Conduct of HIV Research with Migrant Sex Workers: Human Rights, Policy, and Social Contextual Influences.
... migrant sex workers, we subse- quently used axial coding to group and regroup the data until a subset of themes emerged which articulated key research-related ethical challenges and opportunities related to ...
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Burden of HIV and Syphilis: A Comparative Evaluation between Male Sex Workers and Non-Sex-Worker Men Who Have Sex with Men in Urban China.
... In this survey involving a multicentre population of urban MSM of China the prevalence of HIV and syphilis were found to be slightly lower among MSWs compared to their non-MSW counterparts although the difference was not ...
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Sexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Street-Based Female Sex Workers in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
... We analyzed the sexual behavior and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) of street-based female sex workers (SFSWs) of Rajshahi city and examined their socio-demographic profiles. Among the SFSWs attending ...
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Associations between social support and condom use among commercial sex workers in China: a cross-sectional study.
... educate sex clients on the importance of condom use and safe sex ...during sex with stable sexual partners than with their clients ...commercial sex workers in the transmission of the ...
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HIV-1 RNA dysregulates the natural TLR response to subclinical endotoxemia in Kenyan female sex-workers.
... Figure 1. Plasma endotoxin (LPS) levels according to HIV status or presenting clinical condition. (A) Chronic HIV-1 infection was significantly associated with increased plasma LPS levels in both untreated (Mean ...
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Psychological fears among low-paid female sex workers in southwest China and their implications for HIV prevention.
... 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 each ...
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Enumeration of sex workers in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya.
... for sex workers operating at 137 hotspots in the central business district (CBD) in Nairobi, Kenya, we utilized a combined mapping and capture-recapture enumeration ...female sex workers (95% ...
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HIV risk perception, risk behaviour, and seroprevalence among female commercial sex workers in Georgetown, Guyana
... female sex workers engaged in prostitution in Georgetown, Guyana, was made in April ...from sex workers in bars, hotels, and Port Georgetown—tended to charge less, be worse off ...
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Hard-to-reach populations of men who have sex with men and sex workers: a systematic review on sampling methods
... Background: In public health, hard-to-reach populations are often recruited by non-probabilistic sampling methods that produce biased results. In order to overcome this, several sampling methods have been improved and ...
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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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Sampling studies to estimate the HIV prevalence rate in female commercial sex workers
... The higher risk among the SW suggested by previous studies requires studies with a probabilistic sampling to at- tain adequate monitoring of the risk practices related to HIV-infection. Currently, obtaining ...
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Male sex workers in Córdoba, Argentina: sociodemographic characteristics and sex work experiences
... safe sex, perceptions about the risk of getting HIV, individual self-efficacy, and locus of ...street sex workers (sex workers who offer their services in public places such as streets ...
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Factors associated with inconsistent condom use with clients among female sex workers in Podgorica, Montenegro
... commercial sex, as well as with deciding on condom use done by clients or by mutual agreement between FSWs and client, were consis- tent with the results of the studies among FSWs in China, Cambodia, Korea, Sri ...
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Correlates of condom use among female sex workers in The Gambia: results of a cross-sectional survey
... As shown in Table 2 , in the bivariate model those who said it was not at all difficult to sug- gest condom use with clients in more situations that applied to them were more likely to re- port consistent condom use in ...
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HIV Frequency Among Female Sex Workers in Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
... some sex workers or their pimps, which prevented us from taking blood samples or conducting ...the sex workers at their work places for the interviews and blood sample collection due to the ...
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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.
... 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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Viral hepatitis in female sex workers using the Respondent-Driven Sampling
... been widely used in investigations among men who have sex with men, illicit drug users, and sex workers because of difficulties to reach these populations using population-based sampling techniques. ...
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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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Seropositivity and risk factors for herpes simplex virus type 2 infection among female sex workers in Guangxi, China.
... commercial sex with clients in the past three months, and gave an informed ...health workers and technicians went to explain the study description and purpose, and went through the individual informed ...
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Risk behaviours among female sex workers in China: a systematic review and data synthesis.
... Initial keyword searches identified 4,037 records. Removing duplicate records resulted in 1,794 unique articles (Fig. 1) for initial abstract review. Among these 1,794 abstracts reviewed, 582 ar- ticles were excluded for ...
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