Potential reduction in female sex workers’ risk of contracting HIV during coronavirus disease 2019

Female sex workers’ livelihoods in Zimbabwe have been severely impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic due to closure of entertainment venues. Competition over fewer clients has reduced ability to negotiate condom use. At the same time as partner numbers have decreased, frequency of report...

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Autores principales: Machingura, Fortunate, Chabata, Sungai T., Busza, Joanna, Jamali, Gracious, Makamba, Memory, Dirawo, Jeffrey, Yekeye, Raymond, Mugurungi, Owen, Matambanadzo, Primrose, Cowan, Frances Mary
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021
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Research Letters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8373442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33973873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002943
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author Machingura, Fortunate
Chabata, Sungai T.
Busza, Joanna
Jamali, Gracious
Makamba, Memory
Dirawo, Jeffrey
Yekeye, Raymond
Mugurungi, Owen
Matambanadzo, Primrose
Cowan, Frances Mary
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Chabata, Sungai T.
Busza, Joanna
Jamali, Gracious
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description Female sex workers’ livelihoods in Zimbabwe have been severely impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic due to closure of entertainment venues. Competition over fewer clients has reduced ability to negotiate condom use. At the same time as partner numbers have decreased, frequency of reported condomless sex has not increased, suggesting potential reduction in overall HIV and sexually transmitted infection risk and an opportunity for programmes to reach sex workers with holistic social and economic support and prevention services.
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spelling pubmed-83734422021-09-01 Potential reduction in female sex workers’ risk of contracting HIV during coronavirus disease 2019 Machingura, Fortunate Chabata, Sungai T. Busza, Joanna Jamali, Gracious Makamba, Memory Dirawo, Jeffrey Yekeye, Raymond Mugurungi, Owen Matambanadzo, Primrose Cowan, Frances Mary AIDS Research Letters Female sex workers’ livelihoods in Zimbabwe have been severely impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic due to closure of entertainment venues. Competition over fewer clients has reduced ability to negotiate condom use. At the same time as partner numbers have decreased, frequency of reported condomless sex has not increased, suggesting potential reduction in overall HIV and sexually transmitted infection risk and an opportunity for programmes to reach sex workers with holistic social and economic support and prevention services. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021-09-01 2021-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8373442/ /pubmed/33973873 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002943 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an-open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Mugurungi, Owen
Matambanadzo, Primrose
Cowan, Frances Mary
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title_sort potential reduction in female sex workers’ risk of contracting hiv during coronavirus disease 2019
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8373442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33973873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002943
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