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Influence of COVID-19 on female sex workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A mixed-methods analysis.
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- Health and wellbeing experiences of women informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of a Lottery Incentive on STI/HIV Incidence Among Female Sex Workers in Tanzania: Outcomes of Rewarding STI Prevention and Control in Tanzania (RESPECT-2).AIDS and behavior · 2025Trial
- Deaths of Female Sex Workers from HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2019-2023 and Barriers to Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- "'Corona' was bigger than AIDS": exploring how female sex workers with HIV navigated HIV care and treatment during the onset of COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic and Tanzania.Culture, health & sexuality · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study investigates how the landscape of sex work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, evolved in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. Using a mixed-methods approach, the analysis triangulates data from quantitative and qualitative sources to quantify shifts in income, demand, and client frequency and describe female sex workers' perspectives on their work environment. The COVID-19 restrictions introduced in early 2020 resulted in dramatic decreases in sex work income, leading to extreme financial vulnerability, food insecurity, and challenges in meeting other basic needs such as paying rent. However, in a 2021 follow-up survey, sex workers reported the summer of 2021 as a key turning point, with the demand for sex work rebounding to closer to pre-pandemic levels. Notably, despite the average number of unique weekly clients not yet having fully rebounded, by 2021 the price per client and the total monthly sex work income had returned to pre-pandemic levels. This may potentially be explained by an increased number of repeat clients, which represented a larger proportion of all clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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