Female sex workers (FSWs) are the group at greatest risk for human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) infection in India. Women and girls trafficked (ie, forced or coerced) into sex work are …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of sex trafficking as a mode of entry into sex work
and to examine associations between sex trafficking and HIV vulnerability, recent violence …

Objectives This study examines violence experienced in work and personal contexts and
relation to HIV risk factors in these contexts among female sex workers (FSW) in Andhra …

History of forced or coerced sex work entry and/or sex work entry prior to age 18 (ie, sex
trafficking) relate to early HIV risk; whether such risk persists is unclear. The current study …

Background Studies have demonstrated the significance of commercial sex work in the
ongoing transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in India. Clients …

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of sex trafficking as a mode of entry into sex work,
and to examine associations between sex trafficking and recent violence experiences and …

The study was carried out to assess the factors associated with HIV seropositivity among
female sex workers (FSWs) in Dimapur, Nagaland, a high HIV prevalence state of India. A …

Sexual violence has been shown to increase women's risk of HIV infection. India is a country
where the HIV epidemic is growing among women and intimate partner violence (IPV) is …

Background The trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is an internationally
recognised form of gender-based violence, and is thought to confer unique sexual and …

Background The objective of the present study was to compare the sociodemographic
characteristics and sex work patterns of women involved in the traditional Devadasi form of …