ReviewCurrent HIV/AIDS reports2013
HIV/STI risk among venue-based female sex workers across the globe: a look back and the way forward.
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- Behaviour change techniques in brief interventions to prevent HIV, STI and unintended pregnancies: A systematic review.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Systematic review of interventions to reduce illicit drug use in female drug-dependent street sex workers.BMJ open · 2015Pooled it
- HIV- and sex work-related stigmas and quality of life of female sex workers living with HIV in South Africa: a cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Trial
- Human papillomavirus genotype distribution and factors associated among female sex workers in West Africa.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Using qualitative and community-based engagement approaches to gain access and to develop a culturally appropriate STI prevention intervention for foreign female entertainment workers in Singapore.Globalization and health · 2018Trial
- Hombre Seguro (Safe Men): a sexual risk reduction intervention for male clients of female sex workers.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Prioritising place-based strategies for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection prevention: protocol for theBMJ open · 2026Article
- Contraceptive and condom use among women from key populations in Myanmar.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Legal status, sex work engagement and inequities in the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis cascade among migrant women in 11 European countries.HIV medicine · 2026Article
- Laboratory-confirmed sexually transmitted infections and associated factors among street-based female sex workers in Southwest Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Determinants of Healthcare-Seeking Preferences of Female Sex Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study From the South-Western Region of Bangladesh.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Recent HIV-1 infection and associated factors among newly diagnosed female sex workers in Ethiopia-2019 to 2022.AJOG global reports · 2026Article
- Typologies of Sex Work Practice and Associations with the HIV Risk Environment and Risk Behaviors in Kazakhstan.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Understanding the contexts in which female sex workers sell sex in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Social and structural determinants associated with the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among female commercial sex workers in Dhaka City, Bangladesh.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Biobehavioral survey using time location sampling among female sex workers living in Ghana in 2020.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- "You know that we travel a lot": Mobility narratives among female sex workers living with HIV in Tanzania and the Dominican Republic.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- The role of education and income as protective factors against intimate partner violence and HIV exposure among Kenyan women.International journal of qualitative studies in education : QSE · 2024Article
- Using education based on the health belief model to modifications in performance of behaviors related to sexually transmitted infections in vulnerable women.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Article
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Abstract
Female sex workers (FSWs) continue to represent a high-risk population in need of targeted HIV prevention interventions. Targeting environmental risk factors should result in more sustainable behavior change than individual-level interventions alone. There are many types of FSWs who operate in and through a variety of micro- (eg, brothels) and macro-level (eg, being sex-trafficked) contexts. Efforts to characterize FSWs and inform HIV prevention programs have often relied on sex work typologies or categorizations of FSWs by venue or type. We conducted a systematic search and qualitatively reviewed 37 published studies on venue-based FSWs to examine the appropriateness of sex work typologies, and the extent to which this research has systematically examined characteristics of different risk environments. We extracted information on study characteristics like venue comparisons, HIV/STI prevalence, and sampling strategies. We found mixed results with regards to the reliability of typologies in predicting HIV/STI infection; relying solely on categorization of FSWs by venue or type did not predict seroprevalence in a consistent manner. Only 65 % of the studies that allowed for venue comparisons on HIV/STI prevalence provided data on venue characteristics. The factors that were assessed were largely individual-level FSW factors (eg, demographics, number of clients per day), rather than social and structural characteristics of the risk environment. We outline a strategy for future research on venue-based FSWs that ultimately aims to inform structural-level HIV interventions for FSWs.
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