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Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study
BACKGROUND: Armed conflict and the HIV pandemic are significant global health issues. Evidence of the association between armed conflict and HIV infection has been conflicting. Our objective was to examine the role of mediating risk factors, such as engagement in transactional sex work, to elucidate...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8876753/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35216637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-022-00441-5 |
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author | Mootz, Jennifer J. Odejimi, Omolola A. Bhattacharya, Aishwarya Kann, Bianca Ettelbrick, Julia Mello, Milena Wainberg, Milton L. Khoshnood, Kaveh |
author_facet | Mootz, Jennifer J. Odejimi, Omolola A. Bhattacharya, Aishwarya Kann, Bianca Ettelbrick, Julia Mello, Milena Wainberg, Milton L. Khoshnood, Kaveh |
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description | BACKGROUND: Armed conflict and the HIV pandemic are significant global health issues. Evidence of the association between armed conflict and HIV infection has been conflicting. Our objective was to examine the role of mediating risk factors, such as engagement in transactional sex work, to elucidate the relation between armed conflict and HIV infection. METHODS: We used multistage sampling across three Northeastern Ugandan districts to randomly select 605 women aged 13 to 49 to answer cross-sectional surveys from January to May of 2016. We used multivariate logistic regression model with R 4.0.3 to examine if exposure to armed conflict has an indirect effect on reporting having an HIV-positive serostatus through engagement in transactional sex work. Age and district residence were included as covariates. RESULTS: Exposure to armed conflict β = .16, SE = .04, p < .05, OR = 1.17, 95% [CI .08, .23] was significantly associated with reporting a HIV-positive serostatus. For each 1-unit increase in exposure to armed conflict (i.e., additional type of armed conflict exposure), there was a 17% increase in the odds of reporting a HIV-positive serostatus. Engagement in transactional sex work was not associated with reporting a HIV-positive serostatus β = .04, SE = .05, p = .37, 95% [CI − .051, .138]. We found district of residence, age, and interaction effects. CONCLUSIONS: Although exposure to armed was associated with reporting an HIV-positive serostatus, this relationship was not mediated by engagement in transactional sex. Further research is needed on risk factors that mediate this relationship. The likelihood of reporting a HIV-positive serostatus increased with each additional type of exposure to armed conflict. Thus, screening for exposure to multiple traumatic stressors should occur in HIV prevention settings. Healthcare services that are trauma-informed and consider mental distress would likely improve HIV outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-88767532022-02-28 Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study Mootz, Jennifer J. Odejimi, Omolola A. Bhattacharya, Aishwarya Kann, Bianca Ettelbrick, Julia Mello, Milena Wainberg, Milton L. Khoshnood, Kaveh Confl Health Research BACKGROUND: Armed conflict and the HIV pandemic are significant global health issues. Evidence of the association between armed conflict and HIV infection has been conflicting. Our objective was to examine the role of mediating risk factors, such as engagement in transactional sex work, to elucidate the relation between armed conflict and HIV infection. METHODS: We used multistage sampling across three Northeastern Ugandan districts to randomly select 605 women aged 13 to 49 to answer cross-sectional surveys from January to May of 2016. We used multivariate logistic regression model with R 4.0.3 to examine if exposure to armed conflict has an indirect effect on reporting having an HIV-positive serostatus through engagement in transactional sex work. Age and district residence were included as covariates. RESULTS: Exposure to armed conflict β = .16, SE = .04, p < .05, OR = 1.17, 95% [CI .08, .23] was significantly associated with reporting a HIV-positive serostatus. For each 1-unit increase in exposure to armed conflict (i.e., additional type of armed conflict exposure), there was a 17% increase in the odds of reporting a HIV-positive serostatus. Engagement in transactional sex work was not associated with reporting a HIV-positive serostatus β = .04, SE = .05, p = .37, 95% [CI − .051, .138]. We found district of residence, age, and interaction effects. CONCLUSIONS: Although exposure to armed was associated with reporting an HIV-positive serostatus, this relationship was not mediated by engagement in transactional sex. Further research is needed on risk factors that mediate this relationship. The likelihood of reporting a HIV-positive serostatus increased with each additional type of exposure to armed conflict. Thus, screening for exposure to multiple traumatic stressors should occur in HIV prevention settings. Healthcare services that are trauma-informed and consider mental distress would likely improve HIV outcomes. BioMed Central 2022-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8876753/ /pubmed/35216637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-022-00441-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Mootz, Jennifer J. Odejimi, Omolola A. Bhattacharya, Aishwarya Kann, Bianca Ettelbrick, Julia Mello, Milena Wainberg, Milton L. Khoshnood, Kaveh Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study |
title | Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study |
title_full | Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study |
title_fullStr | Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study |
title_full_unstemmed | Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study |
title_short | Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study |
title_sort | transactional sex work and hiv among women in conflict-affected northeastern uganda: a population-based study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8876753/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35216637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-022-00441-5 |
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