Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: Global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1848-1862

  Scambler, Graham ^a   Paoli, Frederique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deviance; Female sex workers; HIV AIDS; India; Research agenda; Social structure; Stigma; Thailand; UK

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH WORKER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROSTITUTION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; PROSTITUTION; SHAME; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STIGMA; THAILAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; LONDON; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SHAME; STEREOTYPING; THAILAND; WORLD HEALTH;

ASIA; BANGKOK; CALCUTTA; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; INDIA; KRUNG THEP MAHANAKHON; LONDON [ENGLAND]; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST BENGAL; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 40849105295     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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