Feasible, Efficient and Necessary, without Exception: Working with Sex Workers Interrupts HIV/STI Transmission and Brings Treatment to Many in Need

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121145

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Feasible, Efficient and Necessary, without Exception: Working with Sex Workers Interrupts HIV/STI Transmission and Brings Treatment to Many in Need

dc.contributor.author	Steen, Richard
dc.contributor.author	Wheeler, Tisha
dc.contributor.author	Gorgens, Marelize
dc.contributor.author	Mziray, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author	Dallabetta, Gina
dc.date.accessioned	2015-12-02T22:09:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-12-02T22:09:18Z
dc.date.issued	2015-10-21
dc.description.abstract	High rates of partner change in sex work—whether in professional, ‘transactional’ or other context—disproportionately drive transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Several countries in Asia have demonstrated that reducing transmission in sex work can reverse established epidemics among sex workers, their clients and the general population. Experience and emerging research from Africa reaffirms unprotected sex work to be a key driver of sexual transmission in different contexts and regardless of stage or classification of HIV epidemic. This validation of the epidemiology behind sexual transmission carries an urgent imperative to realign prevention resources and scale up effective targeted interventions in sex work settings, and, given declining HIV resources, to do so efficiently. Eighteen articles in this issue of PLOS One highlight the importance and feasibility of such interventions under four themes: 1) epidemiology, data needs and modelling of sex work in generalised epidemics; 2) implementation science addressing practical aspects of intervention scale-up; 3) community mobilisation and 4) the treatment cascade for sex workers living with HIV.	en
dc.identifier.citation	PLoS ONE
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/23188
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/23188
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Public Library of Science
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	HIV transmission
dc.subject	STI prevention
dc.subject	sex workers
dc.title	Feasible, Efficient and Necessary, without Exception	en
dc.title.subtitle	Working with Sex Workers Interrupts HIV/STI Transmission and Brings Treatment to Many in Need	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2015-12-02
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:18:30.255395Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1371/journal.pone.0121145
okr.identifier.report	102453
okr.journal.nbpages	e0121145
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0121145
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::HIV AIDS
okr.volume	10(10)