"Over here, it's just drugs, women and all the madness": The HIV risk environment of clients of female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1185-1192

  Goldenberg, Shira M ^a   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^b   Gallardo, Manuel ^c   Rhodes, Tim ^d   Wagner, Karla D ^b   Patterson, Thomas L ^e  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c CAPASITS (Centros Ambulatorios de Prevencion y Atencion en SIDA e ITS)   (Mexico)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clients; HIV; Mexico; Prostitution; Risk environment; Sex work; Social determinants; Structural factors

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SEXUALITY; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTIMACY; MALE; MEXICO; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TIJUANA;

EID: 79953730938     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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