6a0e4bf77c2f4f6618ed4036165eb3a517dc9da2-00001186-2

Tweets

Follow us @PLRI

Court-based research: collaborating with the justice system to enhance STI services for vulnerable women in the US http://t.co/3vEaFQVO
The fractal queerness of non-heteronormative migrant #sexworkers in the UK by Nick Mae http://t.co/X7oGFeDI
‘only 31% of the sample of indirect sex workers reported having been engaged in commercial sex in the last 12 months’
Old but good. Violence and Exposure to HIV among #sexworkers in Phnom Penh http://t.co/rkrRGiBa
Someone is Wrong on the Internet: #sex workers’ access to accurate information 

Falling through the cracks: contraceptive needs of female sex workers in Cambodia and Laos

Article in Contraception, in Press.

Condom is the only method promoted for dual protection among female sex workers  in most Asian countries, which may be insufficient to prevent pregnancies given sex workers’ high frequency of sexual intercourse.

Respondents numbered 592 in Cambodia and 1421 in Laos. In Cambodia, 28.2% had abortions in the past year despite reporting 99.0% condom use at last commercial sex. Abortion increased with the number of clients, inconsistent condom use, recent condom breakage and recent forced unprotected sex with clients. In Laos, 26.0% of all sex workers had ever aborted as had 89.4% of those who had been pregnant in the past 6 months.

Sex workers experience higher frequency of abortion than women from the general population. Sex workers’ reportedly high rate of condom use is insufficient to prevent pregnancies.

(abstract authors’ own)

Author: 

Guy Morineaua,Graham Neilsena, Sopheab Hengb, Chansy Phimpachanc and Dyah E. Mustikawatid