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Sex workers to pay the price [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
In 2004 the UK Home Office published a consultation paper on sex work, after a review of the Sex Offences Act (2003). The paper, Paying the Price,1 was criticised by specialist services for giving less priority to the health of sex workers than before and for focusing too much on issues of criminal justice, and by health researchers for its unethical ...
Petra, Boynton, Linda, Cusick
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Excluded but Fighting: Where Are the Voices of Sex Workers and Their Allies in EU Anti-Trafficking Policymaking?

Social Sciences
The ‘end demand’ approach to prostitution has been popping up in Europe through the anti-trafficking debate and receives increasing attention on the international agenda.
Irena Ferčíková Konečná
doaj   +1 more source

Kriminalisasi Perempuan Pekerja Seks Komersial dalam Perluasan Pasal Zina RUU KUHP

Sawwa: Jurnal Studi Gender, 2018
This article discusses the Criminal Code Bill which has unjust legal potential because the provision of adultery has been extended to sexual acts by unmarried couples.
Leony Sondang Suryani, Ani Purwanti
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The Female Sex Work Industry in a District of India in the Context of HIV Prevention

AIDS Research and Treatment, 2012
HIV prevalence in India remains high among female sex workers. This paper presents the main findings of a qualitative study of the modes of operation of female sex work in Belgaum district, Karnataka, India, incorporating fifty interviews with sex ...
Raluca Buzdugan, Shiva S. Halli, Jyoti M. Hiremath, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, T. Raghavendra, Stephen Moses, James Blanchard, Graham Scambler, Frances Cowan   +8 more
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Serological Benefit of SARS‐CoV‐2 Vaccination Relative to Infection in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of severe outcomes from SARS‐CoV‐2 (SCV2). In the post‐pandemic context, where most children have been infected with SCV2, there are limited data on whether vaccination remains beneficial in children with ALL.
Janna R. Shapiro, Freda Qi, Karen Colwill, Alina D. Dorogy, Ying Liu, Michelle Science, Anne‐Claude Gingras, James M. Rini, Sumit Gupta, Sarah Alexander, Shelly Bolotin, Tania H. Watts   +11 more
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Risk of HIV infection among indoor and street sex workers and their use of health services in Belgrade, Serbia [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2010
Introduction. HIV in Serbia is most often transmitted through sexual contact, and therefore numerous prevention activities are geared towards sex workers (SW). Objective.
Ilić Dragan, Šipetić Sandra, Bjegović Vesna   +2 more
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Deep Sequencing of FLT3‐ITD Enables Response Evaluation and Post‐Treatment Monitoring in Childhood AML: An Exploratory Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An internal tandem duplication in the gene encoding Fms‐like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3‐ITD) is associated with high relapse risk and poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and plays a crucial role in treatment decisions. Measurable residual disease (MRD) analysis of FLT3‐ITD during and after treatment has shown prognostic ...
Sofie Johansson Alm, Bea Tornberg, Erik Delsing Malmberg, Henrik Hasle, Kristian Løvvik Juul‐Dam, Lars Palmqvist, Borhan R. Saeed, Giti Shah Barkhordar, Anastasia Soboli, Anna Staffas, Jonas Abrahamsson, Linda Fogelstrand   +11 more
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Mixed-methods protocol for the WiSSPr study: Women in Sex work, Stigma and psychosocial barriers to Pre-exposure prophylaxis in Zambia

BMJ Open
Introduction Women engaging in sex work (WESW) have 21 times the risk of HIV acquisition compared with the general population. However, accessing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) remains challenging, and PrEP initiation and persistence are low due to ...
Anjali Sharma, Michael E Herce, Maurice Musheke, Chama Mulubwa, Ramya Kumar, Deepa Rao, Jamia Phiri, Martin Zimba, Maureen Phiri, Ruth Zyambo, Gwen Mulenga Kalo, Louise Chilembo, Phidelina Milambo Kunda, Benard Ngosa, Kenneth K Mugwanya, Wendy E Barrington   +15 more
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Characteristics of the vaginal microbiome in cross-border female sex workers in China: a case-control study [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Female sex workers (FSWs) are key groups in the transmission of sexual transmitted infections (STI), and vaginal microbiome variations play an important role in transmission.
Xiang Hong, Shenghao Fang, Kaiping Huang, Jiechen Yin, Jianshuang Chen, Yan Xuan, Jing Zhu, Jun Ma, Pengfei Qin, Danhong Peng, Ning Wang, Bei Wang   +11 more
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