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Sexually Transmitted Disease
Study results from General Hospital broaden understanding of sexually transmitted disease
November 11th, 2008
In this recent report, researchers in Bristol, the United Kingdom conducted a study "To obtain a detailed understanding of the lives of street-based commercial sex workers (SSWs) and how factors in their lives interrelate to affect their health. In-depth interviews with 22 SSW working in Bristol, U.K.." "The SSWs described their working day as a continuous cycle of selling sex, buying and using drugs, then returning to work. They explained that they placed themselves at risk of sexually transmitted infections, rape, physical assault, verbal abuse and murder when selling sex and physical violence when buying drugs. Most of the women injected drugs and detailed how this...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-11-11)
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