P1-S2.10 Female clients and partners of MSM sex workers in a resource-poor setting, West Africa
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Partners and clients of female sex workers in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
This paper compares and contrasts number of partners and condom use behaviour for female sex workers and a sample of women working in other economic activities, with both samples drawn from the large informal settlement of Kibera, Nairobi. As expected, univariate analysis revealed much higher numbers of overall sexual partners and higher levels of condom use among female sex workers compared to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050108.67