This article analyzes the social and health challenges linked to sex work and the interventions carried out within this arena, taking into consideration the ways in which prostitution is socially marginalized. Basing our analysis on the experiences and understandings of sex workers practicing in the city of Oporto (Portugal), we attempt to understand the main forms of vulnerability faced by this group, along with the ways in which they experience the relationship with State services and social and health interventions that target them. Qualitative field research was conducted involving a case study of an intervention project. Data collection was carried out from March to June 2019, and included documentary research, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with project staff and six sex workers. Among the results of our study, we found that sex workers are subject to severe constraints, limiting their use of informal support networks and their access to State social protection and healthcare services. Moreover, although the intervention project based on harm reduction intended to support these women and was indeed valued, it had a strong epidemiological prevention bias favoring an individualistic and assistentialist approach, while failing to address other social vulnerabilities identified by the women themselves.
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Public Health Res (Southampt)
September 2024
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Background: Sex workers' risk of violence and ill-health is shaped by their work environments, community and structural factors, including criminalisation.
Aim: We evaluated the impact of removing police enforcement on sex workers' safety, health and access to services.
Design: Mixed-methods participatory study comprising qualitative research, a prospective cohort study, mathematical modelling and routine data collation.
PLoS One
December 2024
Impact Research and Development Organization, Kisumu, Kenya.
Background: The burden of HIV among female sex workers (FSWs) remains higher in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with an estimated prevalence of 36.9%. In Kenya, HIV prevalence among FSWs is 29.
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December 2024
Universidade Estácio de Sá, School of Medicine - Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
Objective: To evaluate the association between burden of disease and multimorbidity and absenteeism in Brazil.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study using data from the National Survey of Health 2019. The assessed outcome was absenteeism from work.
Rev Bras Enferm
December 2024
Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objectives: to understand the narratives of sex workers about violence suffered by intimate partners and their coping strategies.
Methods: qualitative research, focused on thematic oral history, carried out with six sex workers in southern Brazil, who responded to in-depth interviews using a flexible script. Thematic content analysis was used.
Saf Health Work
December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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Methods: Accepted time loss claims from the Workers' Compensation Board of Manitoba from 2006 to 2019, containing workers' occupations and industries, were linked with administrative health data from 1996 to 2020. After restricting the cohort to the first claim per person in an occupation and applying age and coverage exclusions, the cohort comprised 142,588 person-occupation combinations.
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