Prevalence of sexual difficulties among female sex workers and clients attending a sexual health service.
Date
2007Author
Munasinghe, T
Hayes, RD
Hocking, J
Verry, J
Fairley, CK
Type
ArticleLanguage
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This study confirms what has been observed in Kenya; female sex-workers are exposed to psychological and physical torture, particularly at the
level of condom-use negotiation.
The article reports on the abuse of rights of women in the sex industry and the authors observe that being a female sex-worker on drugs is a
double risk factor for HIV transmission. as this may lead to more condom slippage and bursting. The scenario has connotations of a gender issue.
Men have beaten some of the female sex-workers with the assumption that 'if you insist on condom use, you must be HIV infected'. Furthermore,
those sex workers under the influence of alcohol are unable to insert a condom properly, hence slippage and bursting.
A change in the attitude of healthcare providers is needed so as to treat female sex workers in a holistic manner, rather than to dismiss them,
thinking that 'they asked for it'. Healthcare providers must respond to violence against female sex-workers by empowering them to be assertive,
reduce or stop drug intake and use condoms properly and consistently so as to reduce, firstly, STls and, secondly, HIV infections.
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Citation
Int J STD AIDS 2007 Sep; 18(9):613-6Publisher
Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi