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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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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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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
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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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Prevalence of 21 Physician‐Defined Severe Toxicities Following Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment: Australian Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, with an overall survival now surpassing 90% in developed countries. However, treatments are not without adverse effects. In this study, we apply the severe toxicity‐free survival (STFS) framework to determine the prevalence of 21 physician‐defined severe ...
Lane Collier, Brittany Grantham, Camilla Grud Nielsen, Louise Lundgren, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Chris Selman, Gareth Ball, Elyse Passmore, David A. Elliott, Rachel Conyers   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes towards sex workers: a nationwide cross-sectional survey among German healthcare providers

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundWorldwide, sex workers face stigmatization and discrimination, also within healthcare. Only few studies on healthcare providers’ attitudes towards care of sex workers have been performed.
Benedikt P. Langenbach, Benedikt P. Langenbach, Andreas Thieme, Andreas Thieme, Andreas Thieme, Raquel van der Veen, Raquel van der Veen, Sabrina Reinehr, Nina R. Neuendorff   +8 more
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Improved Early Referral in Long‐Term Survivor Care With Institutional Standardized Practice Among Childhood Leukemia Survivors#

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2018, the Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center Leukemia Program implemented a practice standard to support the transition from treatment to survivorship that includes shared, alternating care between leukemia and survivorship clinicians and a reminder to refer survivors to the long‐term survivor clinic (LTSC) 2 years after ...
Ji Yun Tark, Kayla L. Foster, Omar Shakeel, Mary C. Shapiro, Shawki L. Qasim, ZoAnn Dreyer, Eric S. Schafer, Ashley M. Butler, Austin L. Brown, Maria Monica Gramatges   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Health Literacy, Self‐Efficacy and Knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease Among Caregivers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder in which abnormal haemoglobin leads to severe anaemia, painful crises and organ failure. Caregivers’ health literacy (HL) – their ability to assess, understand and apply information, and interact with healthcare professionals – is crucial for managing children with SCD, yet ...
Melanie Bruinooge, Maite E. Houwing, Rowena L. Grohssteiner, Ferdows Atiq, Sonja A. M. C. Teuben, Mirjam P. Fransen, Marjon H. Cnossen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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