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Improving the Measurement of Transactional Sex in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Review [PDF]
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2019 Background: Transactional sex, or informal sexual exchange, is considered to be an important contributing factor to the disproportionately high HIV infection rates experienced by adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa.
Wamoyi, Joyce +3 more
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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Reproductive Health, 2018 Background ‘Transactional sex’, defined as a non-marital, non-commercial sexual relationship in which money or material goods are exchanged for sex, is associated with young women’s increased vulnerability to HIV infection.
Meghna Ranganathan +9 more
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Sex Work and Transactional Sex Among Chemsex Users in German-Speaking Countries
International Journal of Mental Health and AddictionAbstract Sex work and transactional sex (SWTS), as well as Chemsex, the intentional use of specific substances aiming to enhance sexual experiences among men who have sex with men (MSM), are associated with high-risk sexual behaviors including unprotected sex and injection drug use and are consequently associated ...
Dubrovin Leão, Douglas +9 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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PLoS ONE, 2014 BackgroundMen who engage in transactional sex, the exchange of sex for money, goods, or other items of value, are thought to be at increased risk of HIV, but there have been no systematic attempts to characterize HIV burden in this population.
Catherine E Oldenburg +6 more
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The Relationship between Alcohol Outlets, HIV Risk Behavior, and HSV-2 Infection among South African Young Women: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 BACKGROUND:Alcohol consumption has a disinhibiting effect that may make sexual risk behaviors and disease transmission more likely. The characteristics of alcohol-serving outlets (e.g.
Molly Rosenberg +11 more
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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Conflict and Health, 2022 Background Armed conflict and the HIV pandemic are significant global health issues. Evidence of the association between armed conflict and HIV infection has been conflicting.
Jennifer J. Mootz +7 more
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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