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 …

This volume presents an integrated epidemiologic, social, and economic analysis of the
global epidemics of HIV among sex workers in low-and middle-income countries. The book …

An Invitation to Social Research: How It's Done Page 1 FOURTH EDITION An Invitation to
Social Research How Itls Done Emily Stier Adler Rhode Island College Roger Clark Rhode …

Individuals working in the sex industry continue to experience many negative health
outcomes. As such, disentangling the factors shaping poor health access remains a critical …

Among marginalised groups in India, HIV prevalence is highest among transgender
persons; however, little is known about their HIV vulnerability. This study describes …

The Sonagachi Project was initiated in Kolkata, India in 1992 as a STD/HIV intervention for
sex workers. The project evolved to adopt strategies common to women's empowerment …

Background While community mobilization has been widely endorsed as an important
component of HIV prevention among vulnerable populations such as female sex workers …

Much research has examined how to empower the poor to articulate demands for health-
enabling living conditions. Less is known about creating receptive social environments …

This article considers the terms prostitution, sex work, transactional sex, and survival sex, the
logic of their deployment and utility to research concerned with people who are paid for sex …

This paper raises the question of how knowledge creation is organized in the area of HIV
prevention and how this concatenation of expertise, resources, at-risk people and viruses …