Exploring HIV prevention strategies among street-based female sex workers in Chongqing, China.

This study assesses changes in HIV counselling, testing use and high-risk sexual behaviors following a HIV preventive intervention

From:
Department for International Development
Published
16 January 2015
Country:
China
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Health
Authors:
Zeng, H, Zhao, Y, Meng, S, Tang, X, Guo, H, Wang, Y, Zhang, L

Abstract

Commercial sex plays an increasingly important role in China’s growing HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) epidemics . In China, street-based sex workers are a subgroup of female sex workers with a particularly high risk of HIV/STI infections but are neglected in responses to HIV. This study assesses changes in HIV voluntary counselling and testing utilisation and high-risk sexual behaviors following a 3-month HIV preventive intervention among street-based sex workers in Chongqing.

This research is supported by the Department for International Development’s Evidence Building and Synthesis Research Programme which is led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Citation

Huan Zeng, Yong Zhao, Siying Meng, Xiaojun Tang, Hang Guo, Yang Wang, Lei Zhang. Exploring HIV prevention strategies among street-based female sex workers in Chongqing, China : International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2015 January; 12(1): 855–870. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120100855

Exploring HIV prevention strategies among street-based female sex workers in Chongqing, China

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Published 16 January 2015
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