Female sex workers (FSWs) bear a disproportionately large burden of HIV infection
worldwide. Despite decades of research and programme activity, the epidemiology of HIV …

Background Female sex workers are a population who are at heightened risk of HIV
infection secondary to biological, behavioural, and structural risk factors. However, three …

Abstract Social media Websites (SMWs) are increasingly popular research tools. These sites
provide new opportunities for researchers, but raise new challenges for Institutional Review …

Thirty years since the discovery of HIV, the HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa accounts for
more than two thirds of the world's HIV infections. Southern Africa remains the region most …

Sex work occurs in many forms and sex workers of all genders have been affected by HIV
epidemics worldwide. The determinants of HIV risk associated with sex work occur at …

Sex workers in east and southern Africa are exposed to multiple occupational health and
safety risks. Detailed understanding of barriers to accessing care would optimise design of …

Sex work remains an important contributor to HIV transmission within early, advanced and
regressing epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa, but its social and behavioral underpinnings …

Background Peer education has become a strategy for health promotion among high-risk
groups for HIV infection worldwide. However, the extent to which peer education could have …

Background HIV self-testing allows HIV testing at any place and time and without health
workers. HIV self-testing may thus be particularly useful for female sex workers (FSWs), who …

Donors and governments increasingly seek to deliver development projects through
community‐based organizations such as self‐help groups (SHG s), but little is known about …