Sex Workers and Clients (66)
Cambodia - Addressing HIV Vulnerabilities of Indirect Sex Workers During the Financial Crisis: Situation Analysis, Strategies and Entry Points for HIV/AIDS Workplace Education. Poetschka N, San LS, Song LK, and Thao C. (2011)
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This research paper is the first step towards developing a tailor-made, focused intervention on HIV/AIDS for indirect sex workers in Phnom Penh, using the structure of their formal entertainment sector workplaces. This approach follows the recommendations of the recent report from the Commission on AIDS in Asia, which UNAIDS and its co-sponsors are using as a framework for all HIV programmes throughout the region. As the Commission suggests, by implementing best practice intervention packages with most-at-risk populations “New infections will fall steadily, and regional HIV prevalence will begin to fall slowly.” (Commission on AIDS in Asia, 2008) |
Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections for Sex Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Vuylsteke B, Baggaley R, Butler J, et al (2012)
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Sex workers in many places are highly vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) due to multiple factors, including large numbers of sex partners, unsafe working conditions and barriers to the negotiation of consistent condom use. Moreover, sex workers often have little control over these factors because of social marginalization and criminalized work environments. Alcohol, drug use and violence in some settings may further exacerbate their vulnerability and risk. |
HIV and Sex Work Collection: Innovative Responses to Sex Work and HIV in Asia and the Pacific. UNFPA, UNAIDS and Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (2012)
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A wealth of analysis exists on the nature and extent of HIV epidemics in Asia and the Pacific in the context of sex work. These have highlighted the progress and the challenges that must be tackled to realize the targets to which governments have committed, to bring an end to AIDS. Guidance on effective investment and responses is well articulated. |
Hit and Run: The Impact of Anti Trafficking Policy and Practice on Sex Worker’s Human Rights in Thailand. Empower Foundation (2012)
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Empower is a Thai sex worker organization started by Ms Chantawipa Apisuk, a group of sex workers and activists in Patpong, Bangkok’s in 1984.In 2010 Empower decided to undertake a nation-wide community research project to identify and document the impact of the current Thai anti-trafficking law, policy and practice, on sex workers in Thailand, and to develop relevant and achievable solutions. There were 206 Thai and migrant sex workers had become part of the RATS-W project; leading the research consultations, interviewing, giving expert testimony, investigating and undertaking the analysis and preliminary documentation. The 206 sex workers who worked on the project can be divided into 170 research partners; 36 research leaders coordinated by a research working team of four. They are all referred to herein as research leaders,research partners or sex workers interchangeably. |
Violence against Female Sex Workers in Karnataka State, South India: Impact on Health, and Reductions in Violence Following an Intervention Program. Beattie, T S H., Bhattacharjee, P., & Ramesh, B M. et al. (2010)
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Violence against female sex workers (FSWs) can impede HIV prevention efforts and contravenes their human rights. We developed a multi-layered violence intervention targeting policy makers, secondary stakeholders (police, lawyers, media), and primary stakeholders (FSWs), as part of wider HIV prevention programming. This study examined if violence against FSWs is associated with reduced condom use and increased STI/HIV risk, and if addressing violence against FSWs within a large-scale HIV prevention program can reduce levels of violence against them. FSWs were randomly selected to participate in polling booth surveys. Download this publication |
Experience of Violence and Adverse Reproductive Health Outcomes, HIV Risks among Mobile Female Sex Workers in India. BMC Public Health. Swain, S N. Saggurti, N. Battala, M. Verma, R K. & Jain, A K. (2011)
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Female sex workers (FSWs) are a population sub-group most affected by the HIV epidemic in India and elsewhere. Despite research and programmatic attention to FSWs, little is known regarding sex workers’ reproductive health and HIV risk in relation to their experiences of violence. This paper therefore aims to understand the linkages between violence and the reproductive health and HIV risks among a group of mobile FSWs in India. Data are drawn from a cross-sectional behavioural survey conducted in 22 districts from four high HIV prevalence states (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu) in India between September 2007 and July 2008. The survey sample included 5,498 FSWs who had moved to at least two different places for sex work in the past two years, and are classified as mobile FSWs in the current study. Download this publication |
Why You? Qualitative Survey on Sexual Service Providers (SSP) in Five Provinces of Lao PDR. NCA in Lao PDR and Serge Doussantousse (2008)
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"Why you?” “Why this job?” – these are the questions which sexual service providers (SSP) are most commonly asked by male clients; it is as though the man, after being sexually serviced, cannot quite believe that a young woman like this could be doing sex work. The questions suppose that there are other choices open to these women other than sex work, and arguably, they imply at the same time that only certain types of woman do this work as it must be degrading to do so. This study attempts to address these presumptions and allows the reader to hear as it were, the answers (for there are many) to these questions. This study met 101 women from 12 different ethnicities, from 16 provinces in Laos and with 101 different experiences of life to relate. Download this publication |
Sex Work and HIV/AIDS in Asia: MAP Report. Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network (2005)
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People who buy and sell sex pose one of the high-risk behaviours for HIV exposure in Asia. It is therefore essential for HIV prevention interventions to take into account the nature of the Asian sex industry. The purpose of this booklet is twofold: 1. to summarize what researchers have learned about the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS within Asian com-mercial sex networks; and, 2. to discuss the programmatic impli-cations of those findings. Download this publication |
Demography and Sex Work Characteristics of Female Sex Workers in India. Dandona R, Dandona L, Kumar G A, et al (2006)
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The majority of sex work in India is clandestine due to unfavorable legal environment and discrimination against female sex workers (FSWs). We report data on who these women are and when they get involved with sex work that could assist in increasing the reach of HIV prevention activities for them. Download this publication |
Male Use of Female Sex Work in India: A Nationally Representative Behavioural Survey. Gaffey MF, Venkatesh S, Dhingra N, et al (2011)
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Heterosexual transmission of HIV in India is driven by the male use of female sex workers (FSW), but few studies have examined the factors associated with using FSW. This nationally representative study examined the prevalence and correlates of FSW use among 31,040 men aged 15–49 years in India in 2006. Nationally, about 4% of men used FSW in the previous year, representing about 8.5 million FSW clients. Download this publication |
