Social network and HIV risk behaviors in female sex workers: a systematic review

Shushtari, Zahra Jorjoran; Hosseini, Seyed Ali; Sajjadi, Homeira; Salimi, Yahya; Latkin, Carl A.; Snijders, Tom A. B.

doi:10.1186/s12889-018-5944-1

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“…The average age of all 90 female sex workers were 23.7±3.8 years, 84.4% (76) being single, 8.9% (8) married and 6.7% (6) divorced and widowed. As for education, 17.8% (16) were illiterate and 62.2% (56) had a level of education equal to or higher than high school. These women worked for a maximum period of time of 15 years and a minimum of one month (±4.0 years), 70% (63) attended educational activities for HIV/AIDS prevention, 87.8% (79) of workers took the serological test for HIV with a negative result.…”

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“…A systematic review on social network and risk behavior for HIV in female sex workers showed positive evidence on the association of social support with condom use among sex workers, as it facilitates the dissemination of information, behavior, transmission of diseases (16) . Thus, the prejudiced barriers, socially imposed to this group, need to be eliminated in health services.…”

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Knowledge of sex workers about HIV/AIDS and its influence on sexual practices

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Objective: assess the knowledge of sex workers about HIV/AIDS and its influence on sexual practices. Method: Ninety women participated in the study. The Scientific Knowledge Test about HIV/AIDS and sexual practices was used. The Wald test was applied to verify the relationship between knowledge and sexual practices with statistical significance of p<0.05. Results: the score of 61.7% of correct answers in all three dimensions stands out; 72.2% have sexual intercourse without a condom in exchange for a large amount of money; 53.3% have sex during the menstrual period; 62.2% have sexual intercourse with drug users; 75.6% have sex with clients showing lesions on the penis or anus. The B coefficient (-0.19) showed that the higher the knowledge about HIV/AIDS, the lower the practice of risky sexual behaviors. Conclusion: the influence of knowledge about HIV/AIDS on sexual practices was not statistically significant, but the sexual practices and insufficient knowledge about prevention, physiological and behavioral attributes were observed.

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“…A number of researchers have reported that social support provided by network members may also have potential adverse effects on health behaviors [ 34 – 38 ]. Relationships with risk-taking friends and peers can lead to negative health behaviors like alcohol and drug use [ 30 , 31 , 39 ], risky sexual behaviors [ 37 ], unhealthy eating behaviors [ 40 ], and suicidal behavior [ 36 ]. This “social contagion” of negative health-related choices and behaviors may be explained partly by social norms theory.…”

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Perceived social support and compliance with stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from Iran

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Background Strong evidence demonstrates that social support plays a key role in facilitating preventive health behaviors. The aim of the current study was to assess the effects of perceived social support on compliance with stay-at-home orders in response to a COVID-19 outbreak during the Persian New Year (Nowruz) holydays, since Nowruz holidays of 2020 coincided with the peak of the coronavirus epidemic in Iran. Methods This cross-sectional survey was carried out based on phone interviews of 1073 adults aged over 18 years from 4 to 12 April 2020 in Mashhad, Khorasan-Razavi Province, as the second largest city of Iran. A systematic random sampling was carried out using fixed phone number lists provided by Telecommunication Company of Khorasan-Razavi Province. Phone interviews were carried out by trained interviewers from the Iranian Students Polling Agency (ISPA) at various times of the day. The survey included sociodemographic questions, perceived social support scale (MSPSS) and questions about self-isolation during the Nowruz holiday. Statistical analysis included Chi-square test, Mann-Whitney test and multivariate logistic regression. Results 20.5% of participants reported poor compliance with stay at home orders during the first 2 weeks of Nowruz. Clear social gradients were not found in stay-at-home compliance. When controlling socio-demographic factors, perceived social support, interestingly, both fostered and hindered people’s compliance with stay at home orders, depending on the source of support from family members (OR = .874, 95% CI = .803, .950, p < .005), friends (OR = 1.147, 95% CI = 1.076, 1.222, p < .001) and a significant other person (OR = .926, 95% CI = .849, 1.010, p = .084). Conclusions Public health messaging may need to emphasize the role that friends and families can play in helping to protect those in their friendship/family groups by promoting compliance with social distancing. Further in-depth studies are recommended to evaluate how this kind of messaging can most effectively encourage people to engage in social distancing practices.

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“…However, obtaining a complete map of commercial sex networks using traditional data collection methods (e.g. contact tracing or census data) presents several challenges (Zhang and Centola 2019;Klovdahl 2005), and studies addressing structural network characteristics usually draw on relatively small, geographically limited populations (Shushtari et al 2018). Internet-based sex markets have grown in recent years (Sanders et al 2018).…”

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Characterising the structure of the largest online commercial sex network in the UK: observational study with implications for STI prevention

Giommoni

Berlusconi

Melendez‐Torres

2020

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This study analyses large-scale online data to examine the characteristics of a national commercial sex network of off-street female sex workers and their male clients to identify implications for public health policy and practice. We collected sexual contact information from the largest online community dedicated to reviewing sex workers' services in the UK. We built the sexual network using reviews reported between January 2014 and December 2017. We then quantified network parameters using social network analysis measures. The network is composed of 6477 vertices with 59% of them concentrated in a giant component clustered around London and Milton Keynes. We found minimal disassortative mixing by degree between sex workers and their clients, and that a few clients and sex workers are highly connected whilst the majority only have one or few sexual contacts. Finally, our simulation models suggested that prevention strategies targeting both sex workers and clients with high centrality scores were the most effective in reducing network connectedness and average closeness centrality scores, thus limiting the transmission of STIs.

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Social network and HIV risk behaviors in female sex workers: a systematic review

Cited by 40 publications

References 76 publications

Knowledge of sex workers about HIV/AIDS and its influence on sexual practices

Knowledge of sex workers about HIV/AIDS and its influence on sexual practices

Perceived social support and compliance with stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from Iran

Characterising the structure of the largest online commercial sex network in the UK: observational study with implications for STI prevention

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