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Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions
(2008)
This study validates my own clinical experience that sex workers are sometimes stigmatized. discriminated against and denied services.
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This article is about how stigma can and does interfere with ...
Assessing the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and training needs related to infant feeding, specifically breastfeeding, of child care providers.
(Springer US, 2008)
The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and training needs of child care providers on infant feeding practices, specifically breastfeeding.
METHODS:
Needs assessment surveys for child ...
The impact of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on HIV epidemics in Africa and India: a simulation study.
(2008)
21 May 2008 INew Finding
In this study, condoms were found to be a necessary addition and not a substitute to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). This, once again,
underscores behaviour modification as important in the fight ...
Silent killer of the night: a feasibility study of an outreach well-women clinic for cervical cancer screening in female sex workers in Hong Kong.
(2008)
In many resource-poor countries, there are hardly any outreach well-women clinics for cervical cancer screening in women in general, let alone for
female sex-workers. Yet, this study found abnormal results, i.e. central ...
Determinants of consistent condom use among female commercial sex workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo: implications for interventions.
(2008)
Substance use, including injecting drug use, (IOU) has been associated with comparatively low condom usage. This article confirms my
observations at different levels.
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Women, harm reduction and HIV.
(2008)
This study touches on three important barriers to harm reduction with regards to drug use, unprotected sex and the sex trade.
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There is an unavailability of targeted drug treatment centres for women. ...
Assessing acceptability of parents/guardians of adolescents towards introduction of sex and reproductive health education in schools at Kinondoni Municipal in Oar es Salaam city.
(2008)
The article is about whether youth education on condom use is seen by parents/guardians as promoting promiscuity. This conflicts with the
parents'/guardians' desire to protect them from HIV infection.
This study confirms ...