Baseline integrated behavioural and biological assessment among most at-risk populations in six high-prevalence states of India: design and implementation challenges

Saidel, Tobi; Adhikary, Rajatashuvra; Mainkar, Mandar; Dale, Jayesh; Loo, Virginia; Rahman, Motiur; Ramesh, Banadakoppa M; Paranjape, Ramesh

doi:10.1097/01.aids.0000343761.77702.04

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“…For FSWs based in public places (streets, market areas, highways and cinema halls), time-location cluster sampling was used, where a hotspot was replicated multiple times to form a cluster for each time slot when FSWs congregate at the hotspot. 36 In the second stage, respondents were selected within each selected hotspot.…”

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Anal sex and associated HIV-related sexual risk factors among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

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Abstract. Background: This study aims to understand the correlates of anal sex practices among female sex workers (FSWs) and examine the association of anal sex with HIV-related sexual risk factors in Andhra Pradesh, India. Methods: A cross-sectional behavioural survey was conducted in 2011 among 795 FSWs aged 18 years or older. Probability-based cluster sampling was used to select respondents from sex work hotspots. Results: One-quarter (23%) of FSWs had practiced anal sex in the last year. The odds of practicing anal sex were higher among FSWs aged 35 years or more than in those aged less than 25 years (adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 2.05, P < 0.05), in those formerly married compared to those currently married (AOR: 1.88, P < 0.01), in those having an income only from sex work compared to those having additional sources of income (AOR: 1.54, P < 0.05), those reporting heavy alcohol consumption compared to those who did not (AOR: 2.80, P < 0.01) and those who experienced violence compared to those who had not (AOR: 2.80, P < 0.01). FSWs practicing anal sex were more likely to experience sexually transmissible infection (STI) related symptoms than those practicing only vaginal sex. There was no association between anal sex practice and condom use. Conclusions: Anal sex is associated with STI symptoms, a factor for HIV risk. HIV intervention programmes need to educate FSWs about the risks associated with anal sex.

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“…This is all the more enigmatic considering that intervention, as a distinctly numbers driven activity should have led to a backward response on the part of the state towards quantification of women in prostitution. It is in the HIV context that we have more pointed estimates of numbers (see Saidel et al 2008), but they remain time specific and have the limitation of being restricted to only those states registered to have higher HIV prevalence. In this survey, we don't place a numerical estimation of sex workers as part of our objectives.…”

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Sex Work and its Linkages with Informal Labour Markets in India: Findings from the First Pan‐India Survey of Female Sex Workers

Sahni

Shankar

2013

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SummaryBased on the results of the First Pan India Survey of Female Sex Workers (n=3000), this paper positions sex work within the broader spectrum of informal labour markets that women engage with in India. It puts forth an important dimension missing so far in sex work studies in India -of sex workers with prior or simultaneous labour market work experience. Informal labour markets act as important sites/junctures linking poverty with sex work. For a substantial proportion of respondents, sex work was not their first experience of paid work. In the face of poverty and an early quest for livelihoods, they were pushed into informal labour activities, characterised by low, sticky wages and imminent possibilities of abuse. Placed in this context, their later entry into sex work emerges with a strong economic rationale and agency, as a deliberate, calculated choice offering higher incomes.

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“…Most of these methods are used in validating and evaluating the size estimates derived from routine program data or mapping and size estimation exercises. An evaluation of the Avahan program included cross-sectional surveys, 34 with one of the objectives being to provide independent estimates of the size of different highrisk populations. These external surveys were expected to provide data on size through different established indirect methods.…”

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Mapping and Size Estimation of High-Risk Populations in Large Scale HIV Prevention Programs: How Good is Good Enough?

Ramanathan¹,

Goswami²,

George³

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Baseline integrated behavioural and biological assessment among most at-risk populations in six high-prevalence states of India: design and implementation challenges

Cited by 106 publications

References 21 publications

Anal sex and associated HIV-related sexual risk factors among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

Anal sex and associated HIV-related sexual risk factors among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

Sex Work and its Linkages with Informal Labour Markets in India: Findings from the First Pan‐India Survey of Female Sex Workers

Mapping and Size Estimation of High-Risk Populations in Large Scale HIV Prevention Programs: How Good is Good Enough?

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