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Female Sex Workers
Prevention for Key Affected Populations
Sex workers, whose work involves sexual relations with multiple partners, are a key group of women who need access to comprehensive sexual health services, including HIV prevention, treatment and care. Programs that enhance sex workers' ability to use condoms are also vitally important (Lafort et al., 2010; Pisani, 2008). Unprotected sex with multiple partners puts sex workers at risk of HIV ac...
All sex workers, but particularly sex workers living with HIV, need access to information and services for contraception and dual method use. Studies found that sex workers, particularly HIV-positive sex workers, lacked access to contraceptive options and had high rates of abortion. [See also %{c:15}]
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Changes in strategies are needed for efforts that stigmatize sex workers and force mandatory testing without confidentiality. Studies in China found that sex workers are mandated to be tested for HIV in re-education camps but many are not informed of their serostatus. Studies found that sex workers were sent to labor re-education camps, were publicly shamed as sex workers and IDUs and had low rates of testing, condom use and access to services. Studies also found that cities in China that detain sex workers have a higher mean HIV prevalence compared to cities that do not detain sex workers.
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Clinic-based interventions with outreach workers can be effective in increasing condom use and HIV testing among sex workers.
Female Sex Workers
5 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb, V HIV testing, STIs, community outreach, condom use, contraception, sex behavior, sex workers, sexually transmitted infections Brazil, China, Guatemala, Mexico, Mozambique
Creating a sense of community, empowerment and leadership among sex workers can help support effective HIV prevention.
Female Sex Workers
6 studies Gray II, IIIb, V Armenia, HIV testing, community organizing, condoms, empowerment, peer education, prevention, sex workers, violence India, Kenya
Policies that involve sex workers, brothel owners and clients in development and implementation of condom use can increase reported condom use.[*]
Female Sex Workers
3 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb, IV condom use, peer education, sex workers China, Dominican Republic, Philippines
Interventions targeting male clients can increase condom use and thus reduce HIV risk for sex workers.
Female Sex Workers
2 studies Gray IIIb condom use, condoms, peer education, sex workers India, Senegal
Integrated harm reduction programming is needed for sex workers who use drugs. Site visits and a meeting of service providers, NGOs and people who use drugs found that programs for drug users and sex workers are provided separately, with the result that drug using sex workers are excluded from most services.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Services to provide sex workers with access to antiretroviral therapy in the same clinics that provide them with condoms, contraceptives, HIV testing and STI services are needed. A study found that sex workers, particularly HIV positive sex workers, wanted integrated comprehensive care to meet all their needs if they tested positive for HIV.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Health care provider training is needed to increase confidentiality and decrease discrimination against sex workers seeking health services. Studies found that significant proportions of female and transgender sex workers did not visit health facilities because of lack of confidentiality, discrimination, and lack of counseling when accessing HIV testing.
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Interventions are needed to combat gender-based violence of sex workers and women who inject drugs. [See %{s:9} and %{s:11}]
Addressing Violence Against Women
Comprehensive prevention programs that include components such as peer education, medical services, and support groups, can be effective in enabling sex workers to adopt safer sex practices.
Female Sex Workers
5 studies Gray II, IIIa, IIIb HIV testing, STIs, community organizing, community outreach, condom use, condoms, peer education, risk reduction, sex workers China, India
Providing routine, high quality, voluntary and confidential STI clinical services that include condom promotion can be successful in reducing HIV risk among sex workers.
Female Sex Workers
3 studies Gray IIIa, V HIV testing, STIs, community outreach, condom use, counseling, sex workers China, Kenya, South Africa
Interventions are needed to provide sex workers with greater control and access over money and resources, which can have a positive impact on HIV-related risk reduction. Studies found that if sex workers had access to resources under their control, women were more likely to negotiate condom use and that female sex workers in debt were less likely to report condom use.
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Decriminalization of sex work can promote access to health care and support safer working conditions, including safer sex practices, among sex workers.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
5 studies Gray IV, V criminalization, sex work Asia, Australia, New Zealand
Clinic-based interventions with outreach workers can be effective in increasing condom use and HIV testing among sex workers. [See %{s:9}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Efforts are needed to avoid disruption of HIV and AIDS programmes during raids and other policing mechanisms. Studies found that HIV prevention efforts are disrupted during raids and that carrying condoms is used to prosecute sex workers.
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Decriminalization of sex work can promote access to health care and support safer working conditions, including safer sex practices, among sex workers. [See %{s:61}]
Female Sex Workers
Changing laws and policies, ending police violence, and other mechanisms are needed to protect sex workers from violence and rape. Studies found sex workers experienced high rates of violence and rape from clients and police, and that fear of arrest was a barrier to accessing health services. Studies also found that violence was associated with inconsistent condom use and HIV incidence. Studies also found high rates of violence from intimate partners and clients, but inability to press charges.
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Basic information on HIV such as where to access condoms and confidential HIV testing is still needed for sex workers in some settings. Studies found that sex workers lacked adequate knowledge of HIV and few had sought testing. Most did not know where to obtain condoms or understand that condoms could reduce the risk of HIV acquisition. Others had misconceptions that showering could reduce risk of acquiring HIV
Female Sex Workers
1 study