Client demands for unsafe sex: The socioeconomic risk environment for HIV among street and off-street sex workers

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 522-531

  Deering, Kathleen N ^a,b   Lyons, Tara ^a,b   Feng, Cindy X ^c   Nosyk, Bohdan ^a,d   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^a,e   Montaner, Julio S G ^a,b   Shannon, Kate ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada; Clients; Condom use; HIV risk; Sex workers

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE;

ADULT; CANADA; CONDOM USE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL MINORITY; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNSAFE SEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CANADA; CONDOMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX WORKERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880247404     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182968d39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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