Background Despite growing interest in the role of social norms in perpetuating the harmful
practice of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents (SECA), little is known about the …

Youth are at elevated risk of becoming victims of sexual exploitation, which has a
detrimental impact on their physical and psychological well-being. Understanding factors …

The framing of human trafficking as exclusively a problem of victims versus offenders often
misses the empirical realities found in actual cases.“Consent,”“coercion,” and “fraud” are …

Objectives. To quantitatively assess the relationships of childhood experiences of marriage,
pregnancy, and sexual violence with underage sex trafficking. Methods. Cross-sectional …

Background Migrant women engaged in precarious employment, such as sex work,
frequently face pronounced social isolation alongside other barriers to health and human …

Sex trafficking is a current, severe and intense global phenomenon. Many studies have
made substantial efforts to map the routes and relations between countries of origin, transit …

Although scholarship about human trafficking has grown in the last two decades, not much is
understood about interpersonal dynamics in human trafficking experiences. This article …

To test the hypothesis that childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a risk factor for commercial
sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), we analysed data from the Haiti Violence Against …

The goal of this paper is to determine the association between traveling to engage in sex
work in another country and recent access to HIV testing among substance-using female sex …

We explored the association of international migration with substance use and HIV/STI risk
factors among female sex workers (FSW). Using modified time-location sampling, we …