Effectiveness of interventions for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in female sex workers in resource poor setting: a systematic review

M Shahmanesh, V Patel, D Mabey… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To systematically review the evidence for effectiveness of HIV and sexually
transmitted infection (STI) prevention interventions in female sex workers in resource poor …

Incidence of gonorrhea and chlamydia following human immunodeficiency virus preexposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men: a modeling study

SM Jenness, KM Weiss, SM Goodreau… - Clinical Infectious …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective for preventing
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, but risk compensation (RC) in men who have …

Combination HIV prevention for female sex workers: what is the evidence?

LG Bekker, L Johnson, F Cowan, C Overs, D Besada… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Sex work occurs in many forms and sex workers of all genders have been affected by HIV
epidemics worldwide. The determinants of HIV risk associated with sex work occur at …

Dynamics of interacting diseases

J Sanz, CY **a, S Meloni, Y Moreno - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
Current modeling of infectious diseases allows for the study of complex and realistic
scenarios that go from the population to the individual level of description. However, most …

HIV due to female sex work: regional and global estimates

A Prüss-Ustün, J Wolf, T Driscoll, L Degenhardt… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Female sex workers (FSWs) are at high risk of HIV infection. Our objective was
to determine the proportion of HIV prevalence in the general female adult population that is …

Depression is associated with sexual risk among men who have sex with men, but is mediated by cognitive escape and self-efficacy

LM Alvy, DJ McKirnan, G Mansergh, B Koblin… - AIDS and Behavior, 2011 - Springer
Men who have sex with men (MSM) show high rates of HIV infection, and higher rates of
depression than non-MSM. We examined the association between depression and sexual …

Factors associated with HIV infection among female sex workers in Brazil

CL Szwarcwald, GN Damacena, PRB de Souza-Júnior… - Medicine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: Female sex workers (FSWs) are one of the most-at-risk population groups for
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. This paper aims at identifying the main …

Impact of five years of peer-mediated interventions on sexual behavior and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya

S Luchters, MF Chersich, A Rinyiru, MS Barasa… - BMC public health, 2008 - Springer
Background Since 2000, peer-mediated interventions among female sex workers (FSW) in
Mombasa Kenya have promoted behavioural change through improving knowledge …

Analysis of data collected by RDS among sex workers in 10 Brazilian cities, 2009: estimation of the prevalence of HIV, variance, and design effect

CL Szwarcwald, PRB de Souza Júnior… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Background: Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a chain-referral method that is being
widely used to recruit most at-risk populations. Because the method is respondent driven …