Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37843686›Full record

ArticleAIDS and behavior2024

Sexually Transmitted Infection Risks and Symptoms Heightened Among Female Sex Workers who Started Selling Sex Before the Age of 18 in Five Cities in Cameroon.

Ashley Grosso, Anna L Bowring, Iliassou Mfochive Njindam, Michele R Decker, Carrie Lyons, Amrita Rao, Ubald Tamoufe, Guy H Fako, Ghislaine Fouda, Daniel Levitt and 5 more

Open access · hybridAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in AIDS and behavior, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Exposure toPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Article
  4. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Ashley GrossoInstitute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, 112 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA. agrosso@ifh.rutgers.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5759-7125
Anna L BowringDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe , MD, Baltimore, 21205, USA.
Iliassou Mfochive NjindamDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe , MD, Baltimore, 21205, USA.
Michele R DeckerDepartment of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, 21205, USA.
Carrie LyonsDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe , MD, Baltimore, 21205, USA.
Amrita RaoDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe , MD, Baltimore, 21205, USA.
Ubald TamoufeMetabiota, Avenue Mvog-Fouda Ada, Av 1.085, Carrefour Intendance BP, Yaoundé, 15939, Cameroon.
Guy H FakoCare and Health Program, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Ghislaine FoudaCARE Cameroon, Villa La Rose (3è étage, Av. Churchill, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Daniel LevittCARE USA, 115 Broadway, 5th floor, New York, NY, 10006, USA.
Gnilane TurpinDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe , MD, Baltimore, 21205, USA.
Serge C BillongGroupe Technique Central, CNLS, Rue Henri Dunant, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Anne Cécile Zoung-Kanyi BissekDepartment of Operational Research, Ministry of Health, Quartier du Lac Road, Yaoundé, 3038, Cameroon.
Oudou NjoyaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yaoundé University Hospital Center, Joseph Tchooungui Akoa, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Stefan BaralDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe , MD, Baltimore, 21205, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · USCentral Hospital of Yaoundé · CMFamily Health International 360 · USMetabiota (Cameroon) · CMMinistry of Public Health · CMRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity Teaching Hospital of Yaounde · CM

Funding

Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Australian National Health and Medical Research CouncilUnited States Agency for International Development United States Agency for International Development
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many adolescents under 18 years old who sell sex are at elevated risk for sexually transmitted infection (STI) acquisition, which may persist into adulthood. There has been limited study of the burden of the risks and vulnerabilities among women who started selling sex as adolescents across Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, a Adult female sex workers (FSW) recruited through respondent-driven sampling in five cities in Cameroon from December 2015 to October 2016 completed a questionnaire and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis testing. Multivariable logistic regression analysis controlling for age was used to identify factors associated with reporting selling sex before age 18. Selling sex before age 18 was reported by 11.5% (256/2,220) of FSW. Initiation of selling sex as an adolescent was positively associated with experiencing dysuria (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]:1.50, 95% confidence interval [CI]:1.08-2.10) or genital warts (aOR:1.78, 95% CI:1.08-2.94) and negatively associated with prior recent testing for HIV (aOR:0.71, 95% CI:0.53-0.96) or STIs (aOR:0.65, 95% CI:0.44-0.96). Consistent condom use with clients was negatively associated with early initiation of selling sex (aOR:0.58, 95% CI:0.42-0.80), while experience of recent sexual violence was positively associated with early initiation (aOR:1.74, 95% CI:1.15-2.63). There were no independent significant differences in HIV (24.5%) or syphilis (8.3%) prevalence. Given the limited use of HIV and STI testing services by women who sold sex as adolescents, the prevalence of forced sex, condomless sex, and STI symptoms were high. Programs serving FSW should more vigorously aim to serve adolescents and adults who began selling sex early.

Indexed as

HIV InfectionsSexually Transmitted DiseasesSex WorkersSyphilisAdolescentAdultCameroonCitiesFemaleHIVHumansPrevalenceSurveys and QuestionnairesAdolescentCameroonHIV testingSexually transmitted diseasesSex workers

Identifiers

PMID37843686
PMCPMC10896857
OpenAlexW4387661330

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.