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Acceptability of the dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV-1 prevention among women reporting engagement in transactional sex. [PDF]

AIDS Care, 2023
We assessed if acceptability of the dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention differed among the subgroup of women who reported engaging in transactional sex prior to enrollment in MTN-020/ASPIRE (phase III trial in Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, and ...
Browne EN, Torjesen K, Mirembe BG, Palanee-Phillips T, Jeenarain N, Chitukuta M, Stoner MCD, Mansoor LE, Reddy K, Tauya TT, Naidoo L, Siva S, Richardson B, Dadabhai S, Seyama L, Soto-Torres L, van der Straten A, MTN-020/ASPIRE Study Team.   +17 more
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Transactional Sex among Youths in Post-conflict Liberia

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011
This paper presents findings on sexual risk behaviours of Liberian youths based on five focus-group discussions conducted with 6th and 7th graders (n = 36) attending an elementary/middle school in Monrovia, Liberia. The purpose of the focus-group discussions was to gain an understanding of the sexual behaviours of in-school Liberian adolescents.
Atwood, Katharine A., Kennedy, Stephen B., Barbu, Ernlee M., Nagbe, Wede, Seekey, Wede, Sirleaf, Prince, Perry, Oretha, Martin, Roland B., Sosu, Fred   +8 more
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Transactional sex amongst young people in rural northern Tanzania: an ethnography of young women's motivations and negotiation

Reproductive Health, 2010
Background Material exchange for sex (transactional sex) may be important to sexual relationships and health in certain cultures, yet the motivations for transactional sex, its scale and consequences are still little understood.
Plummer Mary, Wight Daniel, Wamoyi Joyce, Mshana Gerry, Ross David   +4 more
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Protective factors for adolescent sexual risk behaviours and experiences linked to HIV infection in South Africa: a three-wave longitudinal analysis of caregiving, education, food security, and social protection

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Structural interventions are endorsed to enhance biomedical and behavioural HIV prevention programmes for adolescents. Aiming to inform future interventions, we evaluated longitudinal associations between six protective factors that link ...
William E. Rudgard, Maria Granvik Saminathen, Mark Orkin, Boladé Hamed Banougnin, Yulia Shenderovich, Elona Toska   +5 more
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Ties of Dependence: AIDS and Transactional Sex in Rural Malawi [PDF]

Studies in Family Planning, 2007
In sub‐Saharan Africa, the exchange of sex for material support—labeled “transactional sex” by Western observers—is claimed by some to be a major driver of the AIDS pandemic. Transactional sex is described as akin to prostitution, a degraded form of sexual expression forced on vulnerable women by economic desperation.
Swidler, Ann, Watkins, Susan Cotts
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Substantial Increase in Transactional Sex and HIV Risk Among Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in Botswana. [PDF]

AIDS Educ Prev, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting public health response has disrupted the lives of adolescents and their families worldwide. We evaluated the impact of the pandemic on attitudes, beliefs, and sexual risk behavior among adolescents in Botswana ...
Sun CJ, Seloilwe ES, Magowe M, Dithole K, Lawrence JSS.   +4 more
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Transactional relationships and sex with a woman in prostitution: prevalence and patterns in a representative sample of South African men

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Sex motivated by economic exchange is a public health concern as a driver of the Sub-Saharan African HIV epidemic. We describe patterns of engagement in transactional sexual relationships and sex with women in prostitution of South African men,
Jewkes Rachel, Morrell Robert, Sikweyiya Yandisa, Dunkle Kristin, Penn-Kekana Loveday   +4 more
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Transactional sex and risk for HIV infection in sub‐Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2016
Introduction Young women aged 15 to 24 years in sub‐Saharan Africa continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV. A growing number of studies have suggested that the practice of transactional sex may in part explain women's heightened risk, but ...
Joyce Wamoyi, Kirsten Stobeanau, Natalia Bobrova, Tanya Abramsky, Charlotte Watts   +4 more
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Transactional Sex Relationships and HIV Risk among Female University Students in Gauteng Province, South Africa

Journal of Human Ecology, 2022
This study explored the psychosocial dynamics of transactional sex relationships and HIV vulnerability among female university students. Using non-probability sampling methods, ten female university students aged 18 to 25 years, who were involved in ...
A. Lentoor
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Taboo transactions: an initial diachronic approach to translation and sex work

Translation Matters, 2022
Translation is an ever-evolving form of transmission that carries with it ideas, hopes, politics, poetics, and desires. Building upon Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s assertion that “translation is the most intimate form of reading,” the present paper explorestranslation as a form of labor that can be described as intimate through metaphor and history ...
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