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    Utilisation of sexual health services by female sex workers in Nepal

    BioMed Central, 2011
    Statistics indicate that more than half of the women with sexually transmitted infections in Nepal sought sexual health services. This study explores female sex workers (FSWs) use of sexual health services in Nepal and the factors associated with their use and non-use of services.
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    UNAIDS guidance note on HIV and sex work

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2009
    In a world where the overwhelming majority of HIV infections are sexually transmitted, sex workers and their clients are at heightened risk of HIV, in large measure as a result of a larger number of sex partners.
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    Sex work and the new era of HIV prevention and care

    Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, 2008
    Many HIV agencies and civil society groups are considering the impact of new prevention and care methods and planning to incorporate them into their programs and policies. Large organisations have staff to work on this but smaller ones who are struggling with their daily work can find it difficult to monitor emerging issues.
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    Rethinking sexuality and policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    What do sexuality and policy have to do with each other? This issue of id21 insights considers the policies and politics that surround sexuality asking what enables sexual contact? What sets up the dynamics of relationships? And what will the consequences be?
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    Sex work, violence and HIV: a guide for programmes with sex workers

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2008
    To be effective, HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes must address the broader factors that make people vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Human rights abuses, stigma, discrimination and marginalisation stand in the way of people obtaining HIV/AIDS-related information, the means to prevent HIV infection, as well as care, treatment and support.
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    Civil society perspectives on HIV/AIDS policy in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2007
    This report from the Open Society Institute examines groups that are excluded or marginalised from the design, implementation, and evaluation of national HIV/AIDS policies and programmes due to stigma. These groups such as injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners, and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by the epidemic.
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    Five myths about the HIV epidemic in Asia

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2006
    This article from PLoS Medicine challenges the current consensus on how to respond to the high rates of HIV infection in many Asian countries. The authors outline five widely-held assumptions about HIV in Asia which underpin current action on this crisis and which they believe are misinformed.
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    The vulnerability related with AIDS in China

    Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005
    This short note, prepared for a UNAIDS workshop on Vulnerability and AIDS, describes experiences of vulnerability in relation to HIV and AIDS in China. The author describes: experiences of contracting HIV through blood transfusion in China; risk taking behaviour as a means to escape poverty; and how HIV infection can be a result of health systems failure.
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    HIV/AIDS and work: global estimates, impact and response, 2004

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    This major report, prepared by the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, is intended as a reference tool. Part One provides global estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the world of work and outlines the macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS. It looks at the effects of HIV/AIDS on the private sector: the public sector and the informal economy; as well as its impact on women and children.
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    Risk, morality, and blame: a critical analysis of government and U.S. donor responses to HIV infections among sex workers in India

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2004
    This paper examines the scope and effectiveness of strategies being used by the Government of India - with bilateral development assistance from the United States - to address the vulnerabilities of adult female sex workers in the commercial sex industry.

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