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15104876

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-23
pubmed:abstractText
India has the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in the world. Current HIV/AIDS prevention strategies are based on regular and appropriate condom use. However, most commercial sex workers (CSWs), who form the core/high-risk groups toward whom the prevention strategy is directed, are disempowered and socioeconomically marginalized. This does not allow them to insist on condom use by the client, especially in absence of governmental structural support. This paper discusses HIV/AIDS prevention issues that relate to CSWs in India; issues that play a vital role in initiation, perpetuation, and expansion of economic activity of CSWs; and those factors that influence the HIV/AIDS preventive practices of CSWs. This paper argues that CSWs can be empowered and emancipated; that HIV/AIDS control and prevention efforts in India must recognize that ad hoc promotion of condom use or similar such programs will not be effective to control HIV/AIDS; and that more extensive developmental work aimed at betterment of living conditions of CSWs is required for effective HIV/AIDS prevention.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
X
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1087-2914
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
159-68
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Social development of commercial sex workers in India: an essential step in HIV/AIDS prevention.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, and Department of Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. pretatma@juno.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review