“On the one hand, you have public health, which is handing out condoms to sex workers,
and on the other hand, you have police confiscating them,” says Sandra Ka Hon Chu …

Last winter,“Sheila,” a sex worker in her early 20s, had just finished her counseling session
with me at the Sex Workers Project, and was heading out the door. Sheila was seeking …

• Mandatory HIV testing for sex workers: 25 states require mandatory HIV testing for people
arrested for sex work. The confidentiality of these results is not guaranteed, and many states …

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Revised 21 April 2013; Accepted 1 May 2013; Published 24 May 2013 Copyright:–2013
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Studies in Canada, India and Kenya contain testimony from sex workers who report having
condoms confiscated by police–who regard them as evidence of crimes–and being …

Condom use is often equated to safer sex. The prevalence of condom use during sex work
among female sex workers (FSW) in China is high. Condom use, however, co-exists with …

Objectives To determine if the provision of condoms to prisoners in two Australian state
prison systems with different policies affects sexual behaviour. In New South Wales'(NSW) …

Introduction: Since the emergence of the HIV pandemic in the 1980s, high rates of condom
use for penetrative sex have been reported among sex workers in Australia. The sex …

The high rate of HIV infection and AIDS in US prisons has increasingly focused attention on
the role that these institutions play as drivers of our domestic epidemic, particularly among …