The Journal of Sex Research, 2022 This study explored the impact of question wording on attitudes toward trading sexual services. There are no previous research agendas investigating how views on the trade in sex are susceptible to question word choice. We utilized an original survey to assess how three different concepts used to represent the exchange of sexual services impact on the ...
Michael A. Hansen, Isabelle Johansson
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“I have learned that nothing is given for free”: an exploratory qualitative evaluation of a social norms edutainment intervention broadcast on local radio to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Kigoma, Tanzania [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Promising evidence supports the effectiveness of edutainment interventions in shifting norms to prevent violence against women and girls and other harmful practices, yet further research into mechanisms and pathways of impact is needed to ...
Lottie Howard-Merrill +9 more
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Female transactional sex workers' experiences and health-seeking behaviour in low-middle income countries: a scoping review. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthFor a variety of reasons related to biology, behaviour, and environment, a subset of a population known as female sex workers (FSWs) or female transactional sex workers is at increased risk of health, depression, social stigma and access to timely and ...
Wulifan JK.
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"He'll come with some sugar." A qualitative study exploring the drivers and consequences of schoolgirls transactional sex behaviours. [PDF]
Front Reprod HealthIntoduction Transactional sex (TS) is common in areas of sub-Saharan Africa, motivated by reasons beyond financial support. Through this qualitative study we sought to understand the motivation driving TS among adolescent schoolgirls in rural western ...
Thiaw Y +7 more
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Sex for food: a transactional sex reaction to the COVID-19-induced rise in the prevalence of hunger among in-school female adolescents in Ogun State, Nigeria. [PDF]
Pan Afr Med J, 2023 Introduction COVID-19 has doubled the proportion of people with acute hunger globally and Nigeria is categorized as having a “severe” form of hunger. Vulnerable groups responding more to hunger stressors include the female adolescents who transact sex ...
Sodeinde K +5 more
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A mixed-methods, exploratory, quasi-experimental evaluation of a radio drama intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania. [PDF]
Front Reprod Health, 2022 Introduction Age-disparate transactional sex (ADTS) is associated with HIV, unintended pregnancy, school dropout and violence, yet few interventions have successfully prevented it, and none have set ADTS prevention as their primary outcome.
Pichon M +9 more
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Alcohol Use and Transactional Sex among Women in South Africa: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Transactional sex is a risk factor for HIV infection. Alcohol use may increase the risk of transactional sex. No nationally-representative studies have examined the relationship between multiple dimensions of alcohol use and transactional sex in women in
Sarah Magni +3 more
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BMC Women's Health, 2020 Background Women who report transactional sex are at increased risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, in the United States, social, behavioral, and trauma-related vulnerabilities associated with transactional sex are ...
Timothy W. Menza +4 more
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Gender Questions, 2023 This study examined the intersecting impact of structural inequalities and transactional sex on in-school adolescent girls’ risk of pregnancy and poor educational outcomes in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal.
N. G. Mfeka-Nkabinde +2 more
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Transactional sex and HIV risks – evidence from a cross-sectional national survey among young people in Uganda [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Transactional sex is associated with the HIV epidemic among young people in Uganda. Few quantitative studies based on nationally representative survey data explored the relationship between sexual behaviors, HIV infection, and transactional ...
Vikas Choudhry +3 more
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