PURPOSE This study compared the mental symptoms, especially symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of women who escaped prostitution, helping activists at shelters, and matched control subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS We assessed 113 female ex-prostitutes who had been living at a shelter, 81 helping activists, and 65 control subjects using self-reporting questionnaires on demographi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the potential impact of deferral of blood donors at high risk of HIV infection in a west African city where blood is screened for HIV antibodies but no other special measures are taken to protect the blood supply. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING National Blood Transfusion Centre and Project RETRO-CI, an international collaborative AIDS research project, Abidjan, C...

This article explores whether motherhood may have any restorative effect on prostitution. Section I provides an overview of the crime of prostitution. It analyzes the underlying themes of autonomy, power, authority, and control, and considers whether prostitution is an example of the ultimate loss of these qualities, or an exercise of complete freedom and liberty in autonomy. Section II discuss...

OBJECTIVE To describe risk behaviours for infection with HIV in male sexual partners of female prostitutes. DESIGN A cross sectional study. SETTING Genitourinary medicine clinic, St Mary's Hospital, London. SUBJECTS 112 self identified male sexual partners of female prostitutes: 101 who reported commercial sexual relationships only, five who reported non-commercial relationships only, and...

OBJECTIVE To study possible "import" routes of HIV infection to Norway (by obtaining information on casual sexual contacts abroad from patients attending an STD clinic), and to assess their behavioural risk factors (such as alcohol intake, use of condom) for HIV infection. DESIGN AND SETTING Patients visiting the clinic for sexually transmitted diseases (STD), April-June 1989, received a ques...

By J. A. Gbeene, M.D., Medical Officer, Serampore. Ox the 29th May last, about 2 a.m., a prostitute was picked up by the police in one of the streets of Serampore drunk and incapable ; she was taken to the thannah and locked up ; she was very violent and excited whilst at the thannah, and vomited freely. In the morning finding her behaving move like an insane than a drunken person, she was sent...