Prostitution

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Nothing Is Free": A Qualitative Study of Sex Trading Among Methamphetamine Users in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • 'If you have children, you have responsibilities': motherhood, sex work and HIV in southern Tanzania. 
  • A syndemic analysis of alcohol use and sexual risk behavior among tourism employees in Sosúa, Dominican Republic. 
  • AIDS and public policy: the lessons and challenges of "success" in Thailand. 
  • Acceptability of microbicidal vaginal rings and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention among female sex workers in a high-prevalence US city. 
  • Assessing the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burma. 
  • Associations Between Violence and HIV Risk Behaviors Differ by Perpetrator Among Russian Sex Workers. 
  • Changes in sexual behavior and a decline in HIV infection among young men in Thailand. 
  • Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of adolescents. 
  • Comparison of methods to detect recent HIV type 1 infection in cross-sectionally collected specimens from a cohort of female sex workers in the Dominican Republic. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies for cervical infection among women at high risk in Madagascar. 
  • Decreasing incidence of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases in young Thai men: evidence for success of the HIV/AIDS control and prevention program. 
  • Dispelling myths about sex workers and HIV. 
  • Enhancing benefits or increasing harms: community responses for HIV among men who have sex with men, transgender women, female sex workers, and people who inject drugs. 
  • Epidemiologic and biologic characterization of a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 highly exposed, persistently seronegative female sex workers in northern Thailand. Chiang Mai HEPS Working Group. 
  • Female sex workers in three cities in Russia: HIV prevalence, risk factors and experience with targeted HIV prevention. 
  • Gender and Sex Trading Among Active Methamphetamine Users in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • HIV prevalence, sexual and behavioral correlates among Shan, Hill tribe, and Thai male sex workers in Northern Thailand. 
  • HIV sexual risk behavior and family dynamics in a Dominican tourism town. 
  • HIV/AIDS and tourism in the Caribbean: an ecological systems perspective. 
  • Hepatitis B immunization: a potential incentive to HIV vaccine trial participation in Thailand? 
  • How Bachelorhood and Migration Increase the HIV Transmission Risk Through Commercial Sex in China? 
  • How do North Carolina prenatal care providers counsel and test pregnant women for HIV? Survey measures knowledge of HIV testing benefits. 
  • Illicit drug use and HIV risk in the Dominican Republic: tourism areas create drug use opportunities. 
  • Induced abortion, contraceptive use, and dual protection among female sex workers in Moscow, Russia. 
  • Injection drug use, sexual risk, violence and STI/HIV among Moscow female sex workers. 
  • Is military sexual trauma associated with trading sex among women veterans seeking outpatient mental health care? 
  • Is trafficking a health issue? 
  • Loss to follow-up effect in investigations of HIV-1 incidence. 
  • Low HIV seroincidence among female commercial sex workers: a barrier for measuring HIV vaccine efficacy. 
  • Male sex workers in Moscow, Russia: a pilot study of demographics, substance use patterns, and prevalence of HIV-1 and sexually transmitted infections. 
  • Men (and women) as "sellers" of sex in alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Multiple condom use in commercial sex in Lamphun Province, Thailand: a community-generated STD/HIV prevention strategy. 
  • Preexposure Prophylaxis Outcomes in an Urban Community in North Carolina: Discontinuation of Care and Sexually Transmitted Infections. 
  • Preparatory studies for possible HIV vaccine trials in northern Thailand. 
  • Preventive intervention to reduce sexually transmitted infections: a field trial in the Royal Thai Army. 
  • Regional clustering of shared neutralization determinants on primary isolates of clade C human immunodeficiency virus type 1 from South Africa. 
  • San Francisco's HIV infection rate doubles. 
  • Sex Tourism, Condomless Anal Intercourse, and HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • Shan women and girls and the sex industry in Southeast Asia; political causes and human rights implications. 
  • Stigma, social inequality, and HIV risk disclosure among Dominican male sex workers. 
  • Substance abuse, treatment needs and access among female sex workers and non-sex workers in Pretoria, South Africa. 
  • Substance use and HIV infection awareness among HIV-infected female sex workers in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria. 
  • Systematic differences in risk behaviors and syphilis prevalence across types of female sex workers: a preliminary study in Liuzhou, China. 
  • Taxonomy of Caribbean tourism alcohol venues: implications for HIV transmission. 
  • The HIV Care Continuum among Female Sex Workers: A Key Population in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • The US anti-prostitution pledge: First Amendment challenges and public health priorities. 
  • The epidemiology of HIV and syphilis among male commercial sex workers in northern Thailand. 
  • The global response and unmet actions for HIV and sex workers. 
  • The molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 among male sex workers in northern Thailand. 
  • Unprotected intercourse for extra money among commercial sex workers in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. 
  • Violence against substance-abusing South African sex workers: intersection with culture and HIV risk. 
  • Willingness to participate in AIDS vaccine trials among high-risk populations in northern Thailand. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine