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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 ...
Epidemiologic investigation of a cluster of workplace HIV infections in the adult film industry: Los Angeles, California, 2004.
(2007)
The article is a controversial new finding. It provides evidence that a change in strategy is needed. in that preventive and targeted HIV counselling
should be given to adult film makers before and after monthly polymerase ...
The impact of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on HIV epidemics in Africa and India: a simulation study.
(2008)
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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 ...
Service engagement with high-risk men who have sex with men: challenges and implications for social work practice
(Taylor Francis, 2009)
This article reviews social work challenges in treatment engagement of men who have sex with men (MSM) and details issues co-morbidity creates for reaching HIV-positive MSM engaged in substance abuse. The literature reviewed ...
Suicidal behavior among female sex workers in Goa, India: the silent epidemic.
(2009)
CHANGES CLINICAL PRACTICE - I recommend that health care interventions should also include psychosocial counselling in order to
support sex workers' coping mechanisms.
Given that sex work is stigmatized in more countries ...
Factors related to female sex workers' willingness to utilize VCT service: a qualitative study in Jinan city, northern China.
(2009)
While not mentioned in the authors' conclusion, it has been found and it is also my experience that condom education for HIV prevention does not
cause uptake unless it is culturally based {1}. It is important for the ...
The role of relationship intimacy in consistent condom use among female sex workers and their regular paying partners in the Dominican Republic
(2007)
The findings of this study are of great value in planning responsive interventions for female sex workers (FSWs) who have a regular paying
partner, also referred to as 'lover' or 'husband', and those who just have paying ...
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 ...
Opportunities for woman-initiated HIV prevention methods among female sex workers in southern China
(2007)
In my observation and as validated by those in sex industry. a female-controlled method of HIV prevention is needed now. and not in the future.
because power struggles inhibit women from negotiating safer sex practices.
The ...