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Potential impact of pre‐exposure prophylaxis for female sex workers and men who have sex with men in Bangalore, India: a mathematical modelling study [PDF]
Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2016 Introduction In Bangalore, new HIV infections of female sex workers and men who have sex with men continue to occur, despite high condom use. Pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has high anti‐HIV efficacy for men who have sex with men.
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021 Discourse on sex work is replete with narratives of risk and danger, predominantly focused on violence and disease. However, the risks instigated by police, maintained by the criminal justice system and sanctioned by the state—criminal laws, licensing ...
Zahra Stardust +3 more
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Social Sciences, 2021 In 2003, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) passed the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA), which decriminalized sex work for NZ citizens and holders of permanent residency (PR) while excluding migrant sex workers (MSWs) from its protection. This is due to Section
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Social Sciences, 2021 Migrant Asian massage workers in North America first experienced the impacts of COVID-19 in the final weeks of January 2020, when business dropped drastically due to widespread xenophobic fears that the virus was concentrated in Chinese diasporic ...
Elene Lam +3 more
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SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 Emerging evidence suggests that sex workers face unique and profound risks arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. To illuminate the pandemic's effects on sex worker health and safety and identify intervention opportunities, from May–August 2020 in-depth ...
Denton Callander +10 more
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Sexes, 2023 Stigma is felt, constructed, understood and negotiated differently by varied marginalized groups, including diverse groups among commercial sex workers themselves.
Satarupa Dasgupta
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Cripping Sex Work: Disabled Sex Workers and Racialized Disgender in the Online Sex Industry
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2022 This paper explores how disabled online sex workers experience “racialized disgendering” in social media spaces and content platforms and introduces a new framework for “cripping sex work.” After discussing how disabled sex workers experience crip time ...
Shawna Felkins
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background We aimed to explore socioeconomic inequality, health inequity, and the well-being of transgender people during the COVID-19 crisis in Nigeria.
Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan +8 more
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Students in the Sex Industry: Motivations, Feelings, Risks, and Judgments
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Student sex work is a current phenomenon all over the world, increasingly reported by the media in recent years. However, student sex work remains under-researched in Germany and is lacking direct first-hand reports from the people involved. Further, sex
Felicitas Ernst +5 more
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Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2022 Objective: Female sex workers (FSWs) are at high risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and cervical cancer due to their high number of sexual partners. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of HPV and identify risk factors
Quang Duy Pham +17 more
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