HIV prevention
This study in China found that ten percent of men in a community sample and 32.7% of men in an STD clinic sample reported having ever paid for sex. Nearly 20% of clients from the community sample and 60% of clients from the STD clinic sample reported a history of STDs. For both the community and STD clinic samples, working at industrial or construction sectors, multiple sexual partners, regular sex partner having sex with others, and a history of drug use were associated with being a male client. Unfavourable laws, stigma, violence, and discrimination cause sex workers’ vulnerability to ill
