Tonia Poteat, Andrea L. Wirtz, Anita Radix, Annick Bórquez et al.
Worldwide, transgender women who engage in sex work have a disproportionate risk for HIV compared with natal male and female sex workers. We reviewed recent epidemiological research on HIV in transgender women and show that transgender women sex workers (TSW) face unique structural, interpersonal, a...
Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, Bandana Pattanaik
Introduction Abolitionism, Criminal Justice, and Transnational Feminism : Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Human Trafficking Kamala Kempadoo Shifting Paradigms Globalization, Labor Migration, and Human Rights: Unpacking the Trafficking Discourse Jyoti Sanghera Cross-Border Movements and the Law:...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Safia Azim, Abbas Bhuiya, Lars Åke Persson
This paper explores the magnitude of physical violence by husbands, the disclosure of it and the help-seeking behavior of abused women in urban and rural Bangladesh. The data come from a larger study on domestic violence against women conducted in Bangladesh during 2000-2004. All ever-married women ...
Rachel Jewkes, Emma Fulu, Tim Roselli, Claudia García‐Moreno
BACKGROUND: Rape perpetration is under-researched. In this study, we aimed to describe the prevalence of, and factors associated with, male perpetration of rape of non-partner women and of men, and the reasons for rape, from nine sites in Asia and the Pacific across six countries: Bangladesh, China,...
Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Margaret Newby
This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from child...
Kamalesh Sarkar, Baishali Bal, Rita Mukherjee, Sekhar Chakraborty et al.
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among brothel-based sex workers of West Bengal, eastern India, to understand sex-trafficking, violence, negotiating skills, and HIV infection in them. In total, 580 sex workers from brothels of four districts participated in the study. A preteste...
Tasnim Azim, Irene Bontell, Steffanie A. Strathdee
BACKGROUND: Women who use drugs, irrespective of whether these are injected or not, are faced with multiple issues which enhance their vulnerability to HIV. METHODS: In this commentary, we explore the HIV risks and vulnerabilities of women who use drugs as well as the interventions that have been sh...
Steffanie A. Strathdee, Brooke S. West, Elizabeth Reed, Babak Moazan et al.
Female sex workers (FSWs) and female prisoners experience elevated HIV prevalence relative to the general population because of unprotected sex and unsafe drug use practices, but the antecedents of these behaviors are often structural in nature. We review the literature on HIV risk environments for ...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Tabassum Rahman, Samantha Willan, Rachel Jewkes et al.
The ways in which women's engagement in paid work shapes their experiences of violence in the home and workplace is widely debated, particularly in Bangladesh, but rarely considered together. We undertook 23 in-depth interviews with female garment workers living in slums in Bangladesh, and nine inte...
Peter Aggleton
Selling sex in Cardiff and London, Peter Davies, Rayah Feldman Sex for money between men and boys in the Netherlands - implications for HIV prevention, Wim Zuihof Travestis and gigolos - male prostitution and HIV prevention in France, Lindinalva Laurindo da Silva Male sex work and HIV/AIDS in Canada...
Lisa G. Johnston, Rasheda Khanam, Masud Reza, Sharful Islam Khan et al.
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of respondent driven sampling (RDS) to sample males who have sex with males (MSM) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A major objective for conducting this survey was to determine whether RDS can be a viable sampling method for future routine serologic and behavioral surveil...
Alessandro Conticini, David Hulme
ABSTRACT In Bangladesh, as in many developing countries, there is a widespread belief amongst the public, policy makers and social workers that children ‘abandon’ their families and migrate to the street because of economic poverty. Ignoring and avoiding mounting evidence to the contrary, this domin...
Shelley Feldman
Tasnuva Wahed, Anadil Alam, Salima Sultana, Monjur Rahman et al.
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify the barriers female sex workers (FSWs) in Bangladesh face with regard to accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care, and assess the satisfaction with the healthcare received. METHODS: Data were collected from coverage areas of four community-based dr...
Asma Bokhari, Naseer M Nizamani, Denis J. Jackson, N Rehan et al.
The objective of this study was to measure HIV prevalence and risk behaviour in injecting drug users (IDUs), male sex workers (MSWs), Hijras (transgenders), female sex workers (FSWs) and male truckers in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan. The design was a linked-anonymous cross-sectional study of individ...